The Barbary Pirates The creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series takes readers to the shores of nineteenth-century Northern Africa, where American merchant ships were threatened by pirates, to tell the true tales of thrilling ocean battles, hand-to-hand combat, and the first landing on foreign soil by the U.S. Marines. Simultaneous.

 

This book features in the following series: Sterling Point, Sterling Point Books .

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 161 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Sterling Publishing (NY) .

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy. In the HORNBLOWER novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.