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0A Ship of the Line
A Ship of the Line
Publisher Michael Joseph
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Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 304 pages unmarked throughout except for slight foxing on edges of pages. The blue cloth boards are bright and clean front and back, but the spine has some loss of colour. At the top & bottom edge of the spine there is some discolouring where the colour has bleached out. The pictorial dust wrapper is complete and not price-clipped, but is chipped and small tears at edges. There is some loss at the spine which corresponds with the browning on the top & foot of the spine.
About the book
May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . .
Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty. But with daring raids against the French army and navy to be made, it will take all Hornblower's seamanship - and stewardship - to steer a steady course to victory and home . . .
This is the sixth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.
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C. S. Forester
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