While most who meet him recognize him as a daring and intelligent officer, Hornblower can only view himself with "a sort of amused contempt" at best, and vicious self-loathing at worst, thanks to constantly overanalyzing and criticising his motives.įighting the eccentricities of the Royal Navy and his own temperament as much as the French and other enemies, Hornblower rises through the ranks with difficulty, worrying about his poverty, the many ways his career could be ruined, and the constant possibility of violent and painful death meanwhile he conducts his missions to the utmost of his considerable ability. Though unprepared, shy, and awkward, his knack for innovation and a sense of determination propel him to attempt many daring and improbable feats. The eponymous character, Horatio Hornblower, starts as an overaged midshipman at the start of the French Revolution. Forester (1899-1966) wrote many highly acclaimed novels, including the eleven-volume Hornblower saga and The African Queen.A series of stories about a British naval officer set during The Napoleonic Wars and probably C. Forester has shown himself to be a master of the genre.-New York Times Book Review About the Author C. Review Quotes No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling.-Chicago Tribune With meticulous attention to nautical detail, which no committee of old sea dogs has been able to fault, C. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own accursed unhappy temperament - matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonapartes cannonballs.
Horatio Hornblower - who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy - commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel.
Forester, a master of the genre (New York Times). Book Synopsis Hornblowers reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C.
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