Record Added: 11/4/2012 Series Horatio Hornblower #11 Setting  Sea or Islands Topic Historical Fiction History: Sea, Ships, or P Publisher Little, Brown, & Company ISBN B0006AVH9W Year 1958 Age Adult Pages 250 Description Cream printed dustjacket
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"Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies" is the final full-length Hornblower novel, although there are a few short stories set after this one. In this novel, Hornblower has finally made Admiral, and has been posted as Commander-in-Chief of the rather small British naval force in the West Indies. The Napoleonic Wars are over but the times are nonetheless dangerous and complicated.
The book opens with Horblower in command of the British Navy in the Carribean. His challenges include Frenchman who want to restart the Napoleonic wars, a hurricane, the suppressing of the slave trade, and staying out of civil wars in South America.
There are several more or less self-contained stories set in this context, and they are entertaining and enjoyable. During this time frame South America is in full revolution against Spain, and of course this ends up involving our hero. In this novel C.S. Forester also evidences a keen understanding of British naval politics of the times, and this is very interesting as well. |
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Also 10/8/2012 MA Used Bookstore $8. First edition, green binding, no DJ, pub. 1958.
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