The Mauritius command
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 Réunion. But the difficult...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
1994, c1977.
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| Series: | O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000. Aubrey/Maturin novels ;
4. |
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| Summary: | 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 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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| Physical Description: | 348 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780393541618 0393541614 9780393307627 0393037045 : |
