In Popular Culture
In Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men loosely based on real seaman who participate in Anson's voyage. In these two novels, O'Brian began to develop the models for the characters of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as well as the storytelling techniques he would use in the Aubrey-Maturin series which spawned the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Read more about this topic: George Anson's Voyage Around The World
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