A Ship of the Line C.S. Forester

Name: A Ship of the Line von C.S. Forester
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Zusammenfassung

It is May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain, Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line. Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy', Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast, every seaman will do his duty.

A Ship of the Line Zusammenfassung

A Ship of the Line C.S. Forester

May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line ...

Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is `the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty. But with daring raids against the French army and navy to be made, it will take all Hornblower's seamanship - and stewardship - to steer a steady course to victory and home ... This is the sixth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

Über C.S. Forester

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.

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Sku

GOR013191992

ISBN 13

9780141027043

ISBN 10

0141027045

Titel

A Ship of the Line C.S. Forester

Autor

C.S. Forester

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Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Datum

2006-10-05

Anzahl der Seiten

336

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N/A

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