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Mr Midshipman Hornblower by Forester, C S is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mr Midshipman Hornblower about?
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.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Forester, C S
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Nautical & Maritime Fiction
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (50 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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