The Mauritius Command, Patrick OBrian
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The Mauritius Command

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his 0rders 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.


From the Compact Disc edition.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Dutch on 2007-10-03 13:45:53

If you saw Russell Crowe play Jack Aubrey in Peter Weir's superb movie or if you read the novels and developed your own idea of how this vital lover-of-life would sound and act, you might have a problem with Simon Vance's pompous blowhard characterization of Aubrey. This is a rare misstep for Vance, but particularly unfortunate because Jack Aubrey is such a wonderful central character in this series of novels. I was glad I'd read the books years ago because the naval language is now somewhat familiar to me and might have been harder to follow if I was hearing these stories for the first time as an audio-book.