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The Mauritius Command

The Mauritius Command

by Patrick O'Brian
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"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th-century." --George Will, Washington Post 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 Reunion. 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780393307627
ISBN10 039330762X
Series/Work OL8702049W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher W. W. Norton Company
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction Blind, books and reading English literature Fiction Fiction, action & adventure Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Fiction in English Great britain, fiction History Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character) Large type books Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction Naval History Seafaring life Sea stories Ship captains Ship physicians Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)

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