These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories.
These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories.
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
336Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
336Paperback(Reissue)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780316289412 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date: | 11/02/1989 |
Series: | Horatio Hornblower Series |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.87(d) |
Age Range: | 14 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Customer Reviews
Explore More Items
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds
Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a
Newly Reissued
Richard Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, where he and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal in 1809. The
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought--a riveting nonfiction chronicle
On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young
In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm
In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born.
At the end of the ninth century, with King Alfred of Wessex in ill health and his heir still an untested youth, it falls to Alfred's reluctant warlord