Mr Midshipman Hornblower EPUB
by C.S. Forester
Part of the A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea series
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Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words.
Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independent_______1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . . As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. 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. After 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. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C.
S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower. _______ 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/10/2006
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- ISBN:9780141959177
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/10/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141959177
