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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)Summary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAPSummary: Peacetime (1807). Hornblower is forced to make a living at the gaming tables and gets caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: Horatio Hornblower is only seventeen when he joins His Majesty's Royal Navy as a Midshipman. He's dangerously unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, but he's saved by his quick, mathematical mind and keen eye.... This is where it all begins--where young Hornblower gets his sea legs and shows the makings of the legend he will later become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORSummary: The A & E miniseries based on Forester's novels of Horatio Hornblower, following his career from a reticent midshipman to a self-assured and courageous officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HoratioForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: A prisoner of the French after he was forced to surrender his ship, Captain Horatio Hornblower faces a trial by his captor, if he can escape, a court-martial back in England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: After only one night with his bride, Hornblower, as commander of the frigate Hotspur, sails for duty off the French Coast to keep Napoleon from invading England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000