Two Men in a Boat Rowing Two Rivers - In the watery footsteps of Captain Horatio Hornblower RN
Travel writer and architectural historian Martin Andrew sets out with a lifelong friend to recreate Horatio Hornblower's escape from Napoleon in a rowing boat in 1811, as told in CS Forester's Flying Colours. From a practice run down the Severn to birdlife and Romanesque architecture along the Loire, an itinerant tale of picaresque goings-on.
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