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I scored O.T.
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:20 PM

Fellow modelers and ship lovers,

This is of topic, but related. I just purchased some books. Since I live in Taiwan, this was a great find. Used books and in good condition:

Forrester, C. S.
1 - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
2 - Lieutanant Hornblower
3 - Hornblower and the "Hotspur"
Antholoy of the last three books:
     9 - Commodore Hornblower
     10 - Lord Hornblower
     11 - Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
 
O'Brian, Patrick: 
1 - Master & Commander
2 - Post Captain
3 - H.M.S. Surprise
4 - Mauritius Command
 5 - Desolation Island
 6 - The Fortune of War
 7 - The Surgeon's Mate
 8 -The Ionian Mission
 9 - Treason's Harbor
 10 - The Far Side of the World
 
O'Brian Related Books:
 A Sea of Words -- A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafairing Tales 
 Harbors & High Seas - Maps and descriptions of O'Brian's stories
 
Other Sailing Books:
* A Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor - brand new, just bought from Amazon
           This is the book that was given to midshipmen to teach them how to do their jobs.
 
All for just 40 US dollars
 
Now I have something to sink my teeth into other than building my models
 
 
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  • From: arizona
Posted by cthulhu77 on Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:39 AM

  Very cool !  Some of my favourite books there...in fact, A/E did some versions of the Hornblower series that make wonderful visual references, of course, the books are more fun.

          congratulations on a bunch of good reads !

 

             greg

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  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:13 AM

This is a fine start to a library - and at a fantastic price. 

I envy anybody who gets to start the Hornblower series, in particular, from the beginning.  (Naval fiction fans divide themselves into two armed camps:  the O'Brianites and the Foresterians.  I tend to prefer Forester, but I admire O'Brian too.  You'll find that the two have extremely different styles.  I think it's generally agreed that Forester is easier to read - especially for anybody who'd new to this sort of thing.)

The four Hornblower titles you're missing are Hornblower During the Crisis, Beat to Quarters (British title:  The Happy Return), Ship of the Line, and Flying Colors.   Hornblower During the Crisis is a fragment of the novel Forester was working on when he died; the story unfortuately ends just when things are starting to get really interesting.  The book is rounded out by a couple of Hornblower short stories.  You might also want to keep your eyes open for a copy of The Hornblower Companion.  It contains maps, pictures, and Forester's own notes on how he happened to write the novels.

Lever's Young Officer's Sheet Anchor is a classic - tremendously valuable for modelers, especially when it comes to rigging.  Just bear in mind that it relates strictly to the British Royal Navy during a specific time period:  the late eighteenth and very early nineteenth centuries.  (Some editions include additional notes on different practices in the merchant service, and update the material to about the 1840s.)  But lots of the basic vocabulary in it (the names of sails, spars, and rigging lines, for instance) is pretty applicable throughout the sailing ship period.

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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Posted by scottrc on Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:10 PM
If you like the Hornblower series, then another series to read after you get done with both C.S. Forester and O'Brian is the 15 book Bolitho series by Alexander Kent.

Another interesting book if you like Hornblower is this one:
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (Paperback)
by Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Much of the book is written like a autobiography, with details of Hornblowers life after the Neopolic Wars and the end of the age of sail.

I got almost my whole collection of Hornblower and Bolitho from used bookstores for next to nothing.  So cudos on your find.
Scott

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