Beat to Quarters 06 Hornblower

Forester, C. S.

ISBN 10: 0316289329 / ISBN 13: 9780316289320

Verlag: Back Bay Books, 1985

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Called "as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across" by the New York Times, C. S. Forester's Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua.

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua -- a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. 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. 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: C. S. Forester (1899-1966) wrote many highly acclaimed novels, including the eleven-volume Hornblower saga and The African Queen.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beat to Quarters 06 Hornblower
Verlag: Back Bay Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good