The Mauritius Command

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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command, living in a damp Hampshire cottage until his friend, surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orde rs for Aubrey to take the frigate Boadicea to the Cape of Good Hope under a Commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his order are compounded by two of his own captains : Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilletante, and Captainn Corbett who is liable to provoke the crew to mutiny with his severity. Show more