The Mauritius Command

O'Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 000222383X / ISBN 13: 9780002223836

Published by Harper Collins, 1998

About this Item

First printing in this edition. No ownership names, the dustwrapper is price clipped with some wear to extremeties.

Seller Inventory # 033068

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mauritius Command
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000222383X
• ISBN 13: 9780002223836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are now widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets.

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command ― until his friend, and occasional intelligence 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 ― Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny.

About the Author

Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.