Beat To Quarters - A Captain Horatio Hornblower Adventure - Forester, C. S.

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Beat To Quarters - A Captain Horatio Hornblower Adventure by Forester, C. S. Format: Trade PaperbackPublished by Back Bay Books (Little, Brown & Co.), 1999 June 1808, somewhere wes t of Nicaragua -- a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders -- even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.Product image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale. Show more