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Hornblower - Beat to Quarters

By: Back Bay Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Back Bay Books)


Product Info

Title
Hornblower - Beat to Quarters
Publisher
Category
Author
C.S. Forester
Publish Year
1985
Pages
324
Dimensions
5.5x8x.75"
NKG Part #
2148176305
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua -- a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders -- even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.