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June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua — a site suitable for spectacular sea battles.
The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and “to take, sink, burn or destroy” the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial.
A daunting enough set of orders — even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.
This book was also published under the title The Happy Return.
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This is the sixth of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester’s inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
Please Note: The Hornblower Saga is titled in order of the narrative’s chronology rather than the order in which the books were published.
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