Aubrey-Maturin · Book 4
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.
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
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780393060492
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006499183