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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Main Author: O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, c1977.
Series:O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000. Aubrey/Maturin novels ; 4.
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520 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character)  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x History, Naval  |y 19th century  |v Fiction. 
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800 1 |a O'Brian, Patrick,  |d 1914-2000.  |t Aubrey/Maturin novels ;  |v 4. 
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