وصف الكتاب | 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. Featuring an exclusive introduction by Bernard Cornwell, creator of Sharpe 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle |
المراجعة التحريرية | A master of the genre * New York Times * Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative * San Francisco Chronicle * One of the best. Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read * Times Literary Supplement * I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining -- Sir Winston Churchill I recommend Forester to every literate I know -- Ernest Hemingway |
عن المؤلف | C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy. In the HORNBLOWER novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966. |
تاريخ النشر | 13 Jul 2017 |
عدد الصفحات | 320 |