num_pages: 253
description: 1793, the eve of the Napoleon Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command....As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, 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. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C.S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower
language: English
title: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
titlecomplete: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
characters: Horatio Hornblower
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Maritime, Audiobook, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 16763
places: Cadiz, Spithead, Atlantic Ocean, Spain
series: Hornblower Saga: Publication Order, Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order
publisher: Penguin UK