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The Mauritius Command (Aubrey Maturin Series)

By Patrick O'Brian

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0393037045, 9780393037043
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
887 kB (907877 bytes)
Pages
352\207
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of R?union and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still..."—Elizabeth Peer, NewsweekCaptain 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?union. 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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