HMS Africaine features prominently in The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian.
This campaign was used by author Patrick O'Brian as the setting for one of his Aubrey-Maturin series books, The Mauritius Command.
Patrick O'Brian's fighting captain Aubrey is compared by another character to Bayard in The Mauritius Command.
Occasionally the two strands meet, as in the fourth novel, "The Mauritius Command," when Aubrey briefly competes with Maturin over Diana.
Shortly after I finished this last, a complex and fascinating successor appeared - "The Mauritius Command" - and after that, "Desolation Island."
Vasily Golovnin makes an appearance in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Mauritius Command.
The Mauritius Command (1977)
The Mauritius Command is a historical naval novel by British author Patrick O'Brian.
In The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian, the 4th novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series, Jack Aubrey is given command of the HMS Boadicea.
Keating is a secondary character in the novel The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian, which portrays the Mauritius campaign of 1809-1811.