Re: Who is POB?

The book Making Master and Commander (see www.sea-room.com ) provides
details on many film issues,
Peter Weir affirmed his desire to keep to  the spirit of POB.

One of POB's traits, if not faults,  made never talk down to his audience.
You had to raise yourself to his level.  This included even humor because
reader the second time through found humor they didn't read the first time.
Some times he is "over the top" as when Stephen leads Jack to escape from
France over the Mountains to Spain.  With more familiarity, one knows that
these mountains were in POB's "backyard" and he had trekked them.

I sincerely believe that anyone who reads the first two: Master and
Commander and Post Captain will read all 20 and have a very pleasant escape
to a world in which one says, "The bottle is by you, sir."   Critics and
scholars have called it the best book(s) on friendship available and the
civility of a time in which duels were possible.

-- 
John Berg
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"Bebop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Peter Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > (Though I'm not sure how a frigate would fit into Master and Commander -
> > presumably some rewriting taking place?)
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> The movie title is M&C "The far side of the world."
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> http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/master_and_commander/featurettes/index
> .html