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The first Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
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.
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I recommend Forester to every literate I know (Ernest Hemingway)
I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining (Sir Winston Churchill)
One of the best. Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read (Times Literary Supplement)
Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative (San Francisco Chronicle)
A master of the genre (New York Times)
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I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining (Sir Winston Churchill)
One of the best. Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read (Times Literary Supplement)
Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative (San Francisco Chronicle)
A master of the genre (New York Times)
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.
'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle
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