The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian Paperback Book

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Author: Patrick O'Brian

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: May 1991

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $15.95

Pages: 368

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\"Jack\'s assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still...\"—Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek\r\nCaptain 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 Réunion. 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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