Posted by Jock on September 27, 2008 at 21:16:33 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Aubrey-Maturin novels posted by Mike Field on September 27, 2008 at 00:54:43:
Aubrey-Maturin fans should try the naval novels of Frederick Marryat whose own life seems to have been woven by O'Brian into the adventures of Jack Aubrey. Marryat's inspiration was the stranger-than-fiction-life of Lord Cochrane, who was later to be another of O'Brian's sources.