Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a majormotion picture starring Tom Hanks 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independent1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . . As a seventeenyearold 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 characterforming 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. 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FJH; Weight: 348 g; Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 21

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