Beat to Quarters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316289320)

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.

Author: C. S. Forester
ISBN-10: 0316289329
ISBN-13: 9780316289320
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1985
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.53w x 0.78d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 79988 / Beat to Quarters