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Loading... Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)by C. S. Forester
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. Good start to the series. (  ) kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |  This is the first book in the Horatio Hornblower saga, being written as a prequel. It is a series of short stories telling his tale from arriving at his first post through his promotion to Lieutenant. The author shows his knowledge of tall ships in its handling, manning and in damage. I found it useful to keep a nautical dictionary at hand, but the details are not needed for a full appreciation of the stories. I found the stories interesting, well-paced, well-told and hard to put down. (  ) Nodosaurus | Oct 24, 2022 | This is a series of short stories arranged to provide a prequel to the more mature adventures in the Hornblower Saga. Forester was a good man with a short story, and the material fits together well to seem almost a novel. Our hero enters the navy, finds a clever way of accomplishing a duel, loses a naval prize in a very amusing but quite dangerous fashion, opens his acquaintance with the world of cloak and dagger, and finally endures captivity and promotion with his usual firm grasp on self control. It is a fun book still deservedly in found in reprints. ( ) DinadansFriend | Mar 1, 2022 | So I finished the Patrick O’Brian Jack Aubrey series last year. So now onto this series 🙂 ( ) jimgosailing | Nov 18, 2021 | Young Hornblower is as dashing as always as he takes on his first taste of command. (  ) addunn3 | Oct 4, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits. This novel-in which young Horatio gets his sea legs, proves his mettle, and shows the makings of the legend he will become-is the first of the eleven swashbuckling Hornblower tales that are today regarded as classic adventure stories of the sea. No library descriptions found. |
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