The young Horatio Hornblower to cool with no luck. Midshipman without experience came to the society of salty sea dogs, that the devil is not brother. At seventeen the young officer were too serious, but timid by nature and not easy to meet people. On the ship was dominated by a terrible despotism, at once reminiscent of the Hornblower classic images of Roman emperors-geeks. Increasingly, the young man began to think about death more often about escape. He had no idea what extraordinary fate had in store for him in the ocean... for the First time in full the whole Saga of the legendary Hornblower, hero of the Napoleonic wars on land and at sea, whose charismatic image has been successfully translated into film and television, becoming a role model for many writers of historical adventure genre, writing about the sea.