Hornblower Companion
In this beautifully illustrated book, the popular novelist provides a historical naval context to the adventures of the hero of his many books, Horatio Hornblower. Thirty-full-page maps help the reader follow Hornblower's world travels and decorative sketches convey the atmosphere as well as the actions. Originally published in England in 1964, the book explains how Forester assembled his plots and what events in the Royal Navy inspired the adventures he wrote about.
About the Hornblower Saga Series
Books in series order
- 1.Mr Midshipman Hornblower(1950)
- 2.Lieutenant Hornblower(1952)
- 3.Hornblower and the Hotspur(1962)
- 4.Hornblower and the Crisis(1967)
- 5.Hornblower and the Atropos(1953)
- 6.The Happy Return(1937)
- 7.A Ship of the Line(1938)
- 8.Flying Colours(1938)
- 9.Commodore Hornblower(1945)
- 10.Lord Hornblower(1946)
- 11.Hornblower in the West Indies(1957)
- +Hornblower Companion(1964)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
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. In 1793, on the eve of the Napoleon Wars, the young Midshipman receives his first command...
Please Note: The Hornblower Saga is presented here in order of the narrative's chronology rather than the order in which the books were published.