Mr Midshipman Hornblower

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'Hornblower is Hamlet in command of a battleship' 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781405928298
Published: July 2017

Number of pages: 320
Width: 130 mm
Height: 201 mm
Depth: 21 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd