The Mauritius Command
Author: O'Brian, Patrick
ISBN: 9780393541618
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RM123.37
Publisher,W W Norton & Co Inc
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 249.48 g
No. of Pages, 306
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 R?eunion. 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--