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O'Brian's is a roman fleuve recounting the 1790-1815 continuing adventures of his ship captain hero, Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, and of Aubrey's best friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon, a naturalist and spy for the British.
(Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)
One wonders if a nobleman or a man-about-court could be such a keen observer of the creatures of the field and forest, sea and air, as Shakespeare, the naturalist of Warwickshire, who knew his flora and fauna as well as their many distinctive attributes.
The avid naturalist wants to understand this sort of deep oddity for its own sake, but such understanding might have broader implications as well.
From a study of their plants and animals, the 19th-century naturalist Alfred Wallace divided the Indonesian islands into a western group, regarded as part of southeast Asia, and an eastern group, which belonged geographically to Australia/Oceania.