by Cecil Scott Forester · Editions Phébus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782859401269
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«Retour à bon port» is the naval adventure novel by Cecil Scott Forester, published by Editions Phébus in paperback (288 pages, in French).
After Trafalgar, the thirty-six-gun frigate Lydia secretly crosses to the Pacific to support the Nicaraguan insurgents against Spain. Captain Horatio Hornblower must complete the mission, ally with an unpredictable Spanish landowner, and face the frigate Natividad, while Lady Barbara Wellesley distracts him.
First installment of the Hornblower saga (publication order). Translation by Louis Guilloux and René Robert, with a foreword by Michel Le Bris.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and naval adventure, especially for fans of maritime narrative.
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, best known by his pen name C.S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
