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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reacute union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
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The Mauritius Command, Patrick O’Brian
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- Released
- 1977
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patrick O’Brian
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 334
- ISBN10
- 0007879725
- ISBN13
- 9780007879724
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Military Fiction, Wars, Series, Napoleonic Wars, Indian Ocean
- First published
- 1977
- Original title
- The Mauritius Command
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
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- Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reacute union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.