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Master and Commander is a ripping yarn, an investigation into the vagaries of male friendship, and an education in the reality effect woven by an arcane jargon that is the warp to the narrative’s woof. But it doesn’t in itself represent so very great an advance on the boys’ adventure story cum histo…
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