Hornblower and the Hotspur

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 11/01/1998
ISBN: 9780316290463
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.21h x 6.52w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/1999 pg. 168

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