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Language: English
Published by HarperCollins, 1998
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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1st printing. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Visually checked for defects and deviations -- Found: general edge-wear.
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- Title
- The Mauritius Command
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 000222383X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002223836
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 4 of 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
A maritime adventure featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command, until Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. He accepts the order but soon runs into difficulties with two of his crew - a drunkard and a mutinous captain.
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Review
Ashore without a command--and on half-pay to boot--Jack Aubrey's prayers are answered when Stephen Maturin shows up with a secret mission for him. The two men have been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. There they hope to dislodge the French garrisons on the islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. Alas, two of their own colleagues--a dilettante and a martinet--prove to be nearly as great an obstacle as the French themselves.
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