Although it may considered as the first episode in the. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower. Midshipman Hornblower (published 1950) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C.
Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves.Īfter a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. Īs a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independentġ793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Midshipman Hornblower - Novel from the story Reviews by CarolinaC with 208 reads.
Urn:oclc:813426844 Republisher_date 20170303191448 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 314 Scandate 20170303095740 Scanner young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks
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