Mr Midshipman Hornblower C. S. Forester

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SérieA Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

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Mr Midshipman Hornblower C. S. Forester

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. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, 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.

À propos de C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.

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Sku

GOR003434788

ISBN 13

9780241955505

ISBN 10

0241955505

Titre

Mr Midshipman Hornblower C. S. Forester

Auteur

C. S. Forester

Série

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

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Éditeur

Penguin Books Ltd

Année de publication

2011-09-01

Nombre de pages

320

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