The Hornblower Companion
1964
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
149
Number of Pages
The popular novelist provides a historical naval context to the adventures of the hero of his many books, Horatio Hornblower, with thirty-one full-page maps to help the reader follow Hornblower's world travels and decorative sketches to convey the atmosphere.
Avg Rating
4.11
Number of Ratings
401
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Author
C.S. Forester
Author · 46 books
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
