The Mauritius Command
- ISBN-10
- 000649918X
- ISBN-13
- 9780006499183
- Category
- Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains - one a pleasure-seeking dilettante, the other liable to provoke the crew to mutiny. Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean.
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