Hornblower and the Hotspur - Couverture souple

Forester, C.S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 140592831X ISBN 13 : 9781405928311

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2017

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

C.S Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 140592831X
• ISBN 13: 9781405928311
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432