Aubrey–Maturin series Times" Best Seller list. These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon. The 2003 film "" took material from books in this series, notably "Master and Commander", "HMS Surprise", "The Letter of Marque", "The Fortune of War", and particularly "The Far Side of the World". Russell Crowe played the role of Jack Aubrey, and Paul Bettany that of Stephen Maturin. Patrick O'Brian's "The Golden Ocean" (1956) and "The Unknown Shore" (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men, loosely
The Prehistory of The Far Side The Prehistory of The Far Side The Prehistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit is a book chronicling the origin and evolution of "The Far Side" (including cartoonist Gary Larson's first strip, "Nature's Way"), giving inside information about the cartooning process and featuring a gallery of Larson's favorite "Far Side" cartoons from the 1980s. Larson recounts his childhood by showing several pictures supposedly drawn by him when he was a kid. (Example: A picture of a kid sitting on a tire in pitch blackness sports the caption "I believe this is my earliest memory of riding in the