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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393037045

ISBN-139780393037043

eBay Product ID (ePID)155493

Product Key Features

Book TitleMauritius Command

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSagas, Sea Stories, Historical, Action & Adventure

Publication Year1994

GenreFiction

AuthorPatrick O'Brian

Book SeriesAubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsO'Brian's sheer brilliance as a writer constantly dazzles, and his power over the reader is unique. No writer alive can move one as O'Brian can; no one can make you laugh so loud with hilarity, whiten your knuckles with unbearable tension or choke with emotion. He is the master., I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the RoyalNavy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today'sputative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as MarkTwain has outlived Charles Reade

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Series Volume Number4

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisCaptain 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., "Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion 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, Newsweek, 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 Reunion. 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."