Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
by C. S. Forester
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command...
As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, 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.
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Literature, Fiction in English, Fiction, Naval History, Sea stories, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Fiction, action & adventure, Great britain, fiction, Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction, Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction, Fiction, historical, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character), Midshipmen, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, sea stories, Children's fictionPlaces
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
2011, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
- 2011 Reissue
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Mr Midshipman Hornblower
2009, Penguin Group UK
Electronic resource
in English
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
April 2001, Books on Tape
Audio Cassette
in English
- Abridged edition
0736667571 9780736667579
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