A translation of C.S. [Cecil Scott] Forester’s 1957 Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies was recently published as Mission aux Antilles: Capitaine Hornblower (Folio, May 2023).
Description (Goodreads): Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty’s West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon’s defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate piracy. With intrepid daring and brilliant strategies, Hornblower wins his victories. With this series of adventures, Volume 11, Hornblower’s professional life as a British naval officer reaches its climax, not in a battle against men, but against nature. Here the inner Hornblower shows his colors.
Description (Folio): The Napoleonic Wars have ended. Crowned with prestige, Vice-Admiral Hornblower is sent to the Gulf of Mexico to curb piracy there. But then, at the port of New Orleans, the existence of a plot reaches him: General Cambronne was preparing to free Napoleon, then a prisoner on Saint Helena. To prevent the release of his old enemy and the return of war to Europe, Hornblower seems ready to do anything – even if it means jeopardizing his honor…
Short biography by the C.S. Forester Society: C. S. Forester is one of the great writers of the twentieth century. His novels are distinguished by the famous Hornblower stories, and by ‘African Queen’ which was made into the famous film. He wrote many further works which prove a pleasure to explore.
His life – born in Egypt, brought up in south London, a failed medical student, the archetypal struggling young writer – covered both world wars, the last strains of the glory days of British Empire, and a move to Hollywood and final residence in the United Sates.
Two features that have ensured CSF’s enduring success are his prose style – simple, disciplined and keenly expressive – and his continuing observance of ‘the man alone’ as he describes Hornblower. [. . .]
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A translation of C.S. [Cecil Scott] Forester’s 1957 Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies was recently published as Mission aux Antilles: Capitaine Hornblower (Folio, May 2023). Description (Goodreads): Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty’s West Indies Station he
