The Mauritius Command
348 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1977
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ISBN: 9780393307627
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 May 1991
Description
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.
