The Mauritius Command
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Life ashore on half pay, despite the joys of family life, is unlikely to satisfy a man of action such as Jack Aubrey. The sea calls to him. And so, when his friend, shipтАЩs surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders, Aubrey soon finds himself in command of a frigate and setting sail for the Cape of Good Hope.
But, in NelsonтАЩs navy, there are as many enemies within as without.
тАШA few books work their way . . . onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence тАУ witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick OтАЩBrianтАЩs sea stories.тАЩ
URSULA K. LE GUIN
тАШI devoured Patrick OтАЩBrianтАЩs twenty-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog.тАЩ
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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Patrick OтАЩBrian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long AubreyтАУMaturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.
