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The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits.
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In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and...
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(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 6
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English
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With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny.
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua. 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. He also is ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus, and...
12) Hornblower during the crisis ; and, Two stories: Hornblower's last temptation and The last encounter
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Little, Brown
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English
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(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 4
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English
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The last Hornblower novel & two short stories.
16) Flying colors
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Books on Tape
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[2002]
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English
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Captain Hornblower, his first mate, and his servant, all prisoners of the French after losing their ship, The Sutherland, attempt to escape in route to Paris for their trial.
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