Mr Midshipman Hornblower

<p><b>Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of <i>The Good Shepherd, </i>now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks</b><br><br> <b>'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction'</b> Conn Iggulden, <i>The Independent</i><br><i>_______</i><br><br><b><i>1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . .</i></b><br><br> As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy.<br><br>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.<br><br>After a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.<br><br> <b>This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.</b><br><i>_______</i><br> <b><br> 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative'</b> <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p> <p><b>Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of <i>The Good Shepherd, </i>now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks</b><br><br> <b>'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction'</b> Conn Iggulden, <i>The Independent</i><br><i>_______</i><br><br><b><i>1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . .</i></b><br><br> As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy.<br><br>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.<br><br>After a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.<br><br> <b>This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.</b><br><i>_______</i><br> <b><br> 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative'</b> <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p>