Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

About this book

1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command...

As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, 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.

1. Lord Hornblower 1946
2. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 1950 This book
3. Lieutenant Hornblower 1952
4. Hornblower and the Atropos 1953

Subjects

• children's fiction
• fiction
• fiction, action & adventure
• fiction, historical
• fiction, historical, general
• fiction in english
• fiction, sea stories
• great britain, fiction
• horatio hornblower (fictitious character)
• hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction
• hornblower, horatio (personnage fictif)
• large type books
• literature
• midshipmen
• napoleonic wars, 1800-1815
• naval history
• peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction
• romans, nouvelles
• sea stories