The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O’Brian
The Russell Crowe film “Far Side of the World” partially based on this brilliant seafaring tale of the British Navy in early 1800’s against Napoleon, et als. Part of a series of 20 novels and a partially completed 21st before the author died. Fantastic and mostly extremely appealing to conservative sensibilities.
I listened to “Master and Commander” on CD recently. I’d never been able to make it through one of those books in print, but the audio book was enjoyable. I’ll be looking in the library catalog for other recordings.