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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 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.O'Brian, Patrick is the author of 'Mauritius Command ' with ISBN 9780393037043 and ISBN 0393037045.
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