1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. 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. 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. This is the first of eleven books chronicling t Mr Midshipman Hornblower - C. S. Forester od authora C. S. Forester a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
C.S. Forester |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
298 |
Rok vydání |
2017 |
Žánr |
beletrie |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Penguin Books |