Done re-listening and re-reading the first two books of Patrick O’Brian Aubrey Maturin saga, namely Master and Commander, and the Post Captain.

Now with the third one, the HMS Surprise.

Also helping my wife putting together key facts and events of 17th century for her continued effort to draw history of the world, and history of Britain murals in one of our local schools.

Maybe will actually post few here later on.

#PatrickOBrian #aubreymaturin #history #murals

Patrick O’Brian could well have afforded Lord Clonfert’s “black pilot” a little humanity.

What was his name?

Where did he come from?

What was his story?

Who were his family/ friends?

#AubreyMaturin #TheMauritiusCommand @bookstodon @reading #Bookstodon #WhiteSupremacy? #Racism

After a Patrick O'Brian binge it seems a good time to find out why htere is such a fuss around The Wager. Expecting all that specialist vocabulary (orlops and waisters) I have built up might come in handy.
#AmReading #AubreyMaturin #WoodenWalls

BTW: If you've enjoyed the #AubreyMaturin series I recommend reading the #AlexanderClay series by #PhilipKAllan...and his blog, which is very informative.

#NavalFiction

Sailing along with #AubreyMaturin before entering the dreamland.
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Good night, my fellow human beings!

Ooo! This project looks cool! I want to go to there... #sailing #ship #AubreyMaturin #MasterAndCommander

https://youtu.be/iNOJZ4s43zQ

@faerye And if you want a brilliant reader of this series you couldn't do better than Patrick Tull.
#AubreyMaturin #WoodenWalls

Commodore Aubrey in the book The Mauritius Command: “The old *Leopard* [may be sent to join the squadron] too, though nobody wants *her*.”

Me, listening to #audiobook, literally clapping: “I DO, I WANT THE HORRIBLE OLD LEOPARD! Oh, the many terrible and awesome adventures I will get to reread!”

#AubreyMaturin #amReading #DesolationIsland

Es gibt keinen ersichtlichen Grund, aber irgendwie ist meine Stimmung im Keller.

Kuschel mich jetzt neben den Kater und segel mit Jack und Stephen in Richtung Äquator.

Wünsche euch wunderschönen Wesen noch einen entspannten Restsonntag! 🖤

#AubreyMaturin

"But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile." - Stephen Maturin

I wish you a blessed (belated) #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly

#AubreyMaturin #MasterAndComander #PatrickOBrian

#GuiltyPleasures: boost, and post your own!

Mine? #PatrickOBrian’s #AubreyMaturin novels. I’ve lost count of my #circumnavigations.

Das #Turmscheit wird übrigens im dreizehnten Band der #AubreyMaturin-Reihe von #PatrickOBrian erwähnt.

In einem anderen Zusammenhang habe ich neulich die #Theorbe entdeckt.

Elizabeth Kenny: "...jokes about #theorbo players started almost as soon as the instrument so I'm liking a few new ones."

Kommentar: "As a marimba player, I appreciate this instrument for its compact size and ease of travel."

https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4

Patrick O'Brian's novels set during the Napoleonic Wars are among my most favorite. Killick, my non-de-mastodon is a character in the series of 20 novels. As I walk about in the 21st Century, I sometimes imagine how I'd explain life today to the two main characters, a ship's captain and his best friend, her surgeon. The characters have almost become real people to me. Even if you think this genre of fiction is far outside your interests, I suggest you give "Master & Commander" a read. It's the first of the books, and a great story in itself. Regular readers call reading each cycle of 20 books a "circumnavigation." I've lost count of my circumnavigations. #PatrickOBrian #Aubreyad #AubreyMaturin #bookstodon #fiction

Interesting article about the evolution of the frigate in the 18th century:
#AubreyMaturin #MasterAndCommander #PatrickOBrian
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/evolution-frigates-age-sail

‘If you kidnapped a hundred of Hollywood’s top minds and forced them to work around the clock, they could not engineer a more exquisite Dad Movie.’

On the film “Master and Commander” (2003), an adaptation of one of the greatest series of novels in English. H/T @stripes https://www.gq.com/story/master-and-commander-anniversary #literature #novel #reading #books #patrickOBrian #aubreyMaturin #masterAndCommander #cinema #film

I've signed up for a free, online Regency Cookery class starting on February 27th, held by Paul Couchman.

I'm delighted to be learning (more) Georgian and Regency cookery techniques and look forward to better-exercising my inner Preserved Killick and (Mrs) Hill.

There are still spaces available if this is your basin of burgoo, and you'd like to join, too!

bit.ly/GentleRegencyCookery

#Regency #Cookery #OnlineClass #Austen #AubreyMaturin #SpecialInterest

I was raised on love and The #MoodyBlues. #Cornell and #UPenn alum.

Professional:

👨‍🔬 Systems engineer #MBSE

Amateur:
⛵ sailor, 🔭 astronomer, 🏎 Mariokartist 


More about me
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· ⚓ Two circumnavigations of the #AubreyMaturin series. 2️⃣🌐

· WindFish 🐋 from Nintendorks


Alts
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· jawns.club, a Greater Philadelphia Mastodon instance: @JustinW80@jawns.club

· pixelfed@social, a generic Pixelfed instance: @JustinW80@pixelfed.social

#introduction

@wintersweet Patrick O'Brian's #AubreyMaturin thankfully recognises that most sailors would sew pretty well as they were literally making sails as well as their own clothes.
In fact for ordinary people most clothes would still be hand made as it would be too expensive to buy.

I really wish I could hear the Worcester's rendition of Handel's Messiah, rehearsed during the monotony of the Toulon blockade. #AubreyMaturin #MasterAndCommander #PatrickOBrian

"Yet although the choir looked a little strange, and would look stranger by far given time and leisure, they made a fine body of sound as they sang away, all crammed together below with the deck touching the cooper’s crown, the taller men’s heads, but so deep in the music that the discomfort counted for nothing."

‘Wallis,’ said Maturin, ‘I am happy to find you here. How is your penis?’❗😂
#PatrickOBrian #AubreyMaturin #TheFortuneOfWar