The Mauritius Command Fiction_Gift_Guide takes on our comforting myths

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The Mauritius Command Fiction_Gift_Guide takes on our comforting myths"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Runion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still." Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek The year is 1810 and Great Britain is again at war with France. British naval officer Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, living in domestic bliss with his young family until his friend Stephen