Hornblower and the Atropos - C.S. Forester

Hornblower and the Atropos

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Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2018
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4059-3689-7 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession . . .

After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turkish waters. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos's size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant. . .

This is the fourth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C.S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horation Hornblower.

'I recommend Forester to every literate I know' Ernest Hemingway

'I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining' Sir Winston Churchill

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 266 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 1-4059-3689-4 / 1405936894
ISBN-13 978-1-4059-3689-7 / 9781405936897
Zustand Neuware
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