Hornblower and the Hotspur (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316290463)

Hornblower's reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C. S. Forester, "a master of the genre" (New York Times).

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations.
All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs.

Author: C. S. Forester
ISBN-10: 0316290467
ISBN-13: 9780316290463
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1998
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.21h x 6.52w x 1.06d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 79992 / Hornblower and the Hotspur


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/1999 pg. 168