Mr Midshipman Easy (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series) - Softcover

Marryat, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805055673 ISBN 13: 9780805055672

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1998

Synopsis

A wealthy young man experiences the harsh realities of life aboard an English naval vessel and adventures at sea during the Napoleonic Wars, in a classic seafaring adventure. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

"[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable." --Joseph Conrad, Notes on "Life and Letters"

"Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky all vivid, credible, authentic." Virginia Woolf "

"[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable." Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters"

From the Back Cover:

A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval discipline! The author was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian. Captain Frederick Marryat survived fifty naval battles and served on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane - the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Mr. Midshipman Easy is said to have been inspired by Cochrane's adventures as a young midshipman.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805055673
• ISBN 13: 9780805055672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340