Reddit reviews Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World

A Patrick O'Brien book would be helpful, but one of the companions would be even better. For really basic stuff I'd check out this book

If it does there is a small industry of books published to explain it all. Patrick O'Brian's Navy for example.

Pasting my comment from a recent thread:

>Dean King's Sea of Words and Harbors and High Seas are pretty essential, I find.
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>I also like Patrick O'Brian's Navy: An Illustrated Guide to Jack Aubrey's World, though it's more 'additional reading' than a must-have, for me.
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>And of course, Lobscouse and Spotted Dog is the essential culinary companion, if you've a mind to spend some time in the galley and want to shout "Which it'll be ready when it's ready!" as authentically as possible.
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>I've heard good things about the Patrick O'Brian Muster Book, but I haven't used it so I can't speak to it personally.

I saw this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patrick-OBrians-Navy-Illustrated-Companion/dp/0762415401

linked on the wiki page here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_ranks,_rates,_and_uniforms_of_the_18th_and_19th_centuries

There are some references at the bottom which may be useful, most notably Michael Lewis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis_%28naval_historian%29

and Brian Lavery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lavery

Book - Patrick OBrians Navy - Illustrated Companion.

Different resource online.

Do you have both Thedas books? The second one is also great.

I gifted the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Characters and World Compendium to a friend and he seemed to like it very much.
There are a lot of similar things for Tolkiens universe.

My personal favourite companion book is Patrick O'Brians Navy.

Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762415401/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zbJ8yb6MBDKDG

Also this is nice too.

Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World

I'll just go ahead and leave this right here http://www.amazon.com/The-Royal-Navy-Napoleonic-Era/lm/31C0AQAP2Z11 I highly recommend books 2-5, and you can download the first book from Gutenberg (I think).

http://www.amazon.com/Patrick-OBrians-Navy-Illustrated-Companion/dp/0762415401 Pictures... purty

SPOILERS for A-M and (minor) Hornblower
I don't think there's any fiction that is more accurate than O'Brian (on any subject anywhere for that matter), but Forrester's Hornblower series is worth reading for more "naval life". Hornblower and Aubrey were even on station together for the capture of the Spanish treasure frigates! Hornblower does a Hornblowery thing though and laughs when Aubrey gets screwed out of the treasure a mere political point.

Lastly for some quick mindless fun plus tall ship video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze8Y1gokHyA

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp9hsQpB3zA (all four parts are in the related videos, and all worth it)