{"product_id":"mr-midshipman-hornblower-by-cs-forester-9781405928298","title":"Mr Midshipman Hornblower","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHornblower is Hamlet in command of a battleship\u003c\/em\u003e - New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a character-forming duel, several chases, and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46502031196396,"sku":"9781405928298","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15479463482688.jpg?v=1748607984","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/mr-midshipman-hornblower-by-cs-forester-9781405928298","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}