Monday, March 21, 2011

Beat to quarters



Author: Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966

Title: Beat to quarters

Published: Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999

Description: viii, 273 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PR6011 O56 B4 1999

Summary: June 1808, somewhere west 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

Subject(s):
  • Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
  • Sea stories
  • War stories
Review(s):
  • Grainger, John D. "Who Was Hornblower?." History Today 49, no. 10 (October 1999): 32
  • Forester, C. S. "HORNBLOWER AND I." Saturday Evening Post 229, no. 45 (May 11, 1957): 27-141
Read: March 12, 2011