Other Forester Books

The Hornblower pages on the website were among the first I added to my old homepage site years ago. I didn't really look into the author. Have now had a look and he seems to have a lot of books but not all in the age of sail (land based & WWII ones).

So far I've found
Factual books: 'The Naval War of 1812' (first published as 'The age of fighting sail'), 'The Barbary Pirates' and 'The Adventures of John Wetherell.'
Fiction books: 'The Captain from Connecticut' (set in 1812) and 'To the Indies' about a Columbus voyage.

Does anyone know of any other age of sail based works he has written?

I'll look into it and let you know what I find, sir. Pardon my saying, but thus far, I own every early copy of Forrester's work that I can get my greedy little hands on. Both of the aforementioned works are wonderful, though 'Age of Fighting Sail' seemed lackluster in comparision to his other factual works.

Though, I'll begin looking into other works of Mr. Forrester and I'll report back with my findings.

Capt._Sidney_Cochrane wrote:I'll look into it and let you know what I find, sir. .....................

Though, I'll begin looking into other works of Mr. Forrester and I'll report back with my findings.

Thanks for your help

I'm reading Captain From Connecticut now and it's a cracking good read.

An unpublished Forester crime novel 'The Pursued' has emerged and is about to be published by Penguin. Info from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15327043

I read The Captain from Connecticut several years ago as I had finished Hornblower and was looking for anything else Forester had written. Again, I was out cruising in the Canadian Gulf Islands west of the straits of Georgia and it seemed every small island town had at least one good book store. I had never heard of this book, but found a 1st edition HB copy (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1941) in Ganges, BC. Had to pay $2.00 Canadian for it, but the jacket price was only $2.50.

I enjoyed the book, but after reading it I wondered why Forester didn't use Captain Peabody as an American version of Hornblower. Obviously, Peabody was already a captain and the War of 1812 didn't give you an extended timeline to work with, and of course, America's navy was still fledgling at best. The book jacket also mentions that The Captain from Connecticut originally appeared in serial form in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post a very popular weekly magazine in the U.S.

C.S. Forester was involved in "government work" of some kind during WW2, and he was still in the middle of the Hornblower series, which had began in 1936, so possibly that remained his primary AOS focus at that time. But I sure wish he'd chosen to make this a series because it was a good read for me.

It's in my library.