| Beat to Quarters Contributor(s): Forester, C. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316289329 ISBN-13: 9780316289320 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1985 Annotation: "Before there was Patrick O'Brian, there was C. S. Forester, " said the Wall Street Journal in a recent review that described the eleven-volume series of Horatio Hornblower novels as "spellbinding." This epic saga of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, which recounts the exploits of one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy as he wrestles with his own "accursed unhappy temperament" and as he sails valiantly into battle after battle against Napoleon's forces, has delighted millions of readers since the series debuted in 1938. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00265447 |
| Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.53" W x 8.26" (0.54 lbs) 288 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 79988 Reading Level: 7.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Called as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across by the New York Times, C. S. Forester's Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coast of Nicaragua. 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. |