Film· 2003· Adventure

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

by Peter Weir

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Temeraire

Book · 2006

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The film introduced Novik to O'Brian's work and helped trigger her interest in the combination of Age-of-Sail adventure + Napoleonic history. She then imagined adding dragons to that world.

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.