The Mauritius Command
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 315
- ISBN-13
- 9780007255863
- Type
- novel
About this book
Following "HMS Surprise" into print in 1977, "The Mauritius Command" (315 pages) is the fourth Aubrey-Maturin novel, part of the continuous narrative O'Brian built across two decades chronicling Jack's naval career and Stephen's covert intelligence work across the Mediterranean, the East Indies and beyond.
Key facts about The Mauritius Command
Patrick O'Brian wrote The Mauritius Command, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1977. The book has 315 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007255863 to find the main one.
The Mauritius Command is book 4 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.
About Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Mauritius Command is book 4 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows HMS Surprise. It is followed by Desolation Island. See the full Aubrey-Maturin reading order.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels follow the friendship of Jack Aubrey, a bluff, brilliant, and perpetually broke Royal Navy officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and, unbeknownst to most of the crew, a British intelligence agent. The two meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 — nearly duelling before becoming friends — and the twenty novels that follow chart Jack's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy and Stephen's parallel career gathering intelligence across…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007255863
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780393060492
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006499183