Ship of the Line e-bog
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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 sea...
E-bog
82,58 DKK
Forlag
Penguin
Udgivet
1 september 2011
Længde
336 sider
Genrer
Napoleonic War fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780141925639
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.