![]() ![]() With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. The last completed novel was published in 1962. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Note: This is chronologically the sixth in the series, but it was the first published. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and “to take, sink, burn or destroy” the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. (Cecil Scott)Ĭommodore Hornblower įiction, historical, seafaring, war, Napoleonic Wars Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton Writing under the pseudonym: Forester, C. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |