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Newton Forster or The Merchant Service (Classics of Nautical Fiction): 3 - Softcover

Marryat, Captain Frederick

 
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Synopsis

Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter-murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.

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About the Author

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian. He survived fifty naval battles on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane―the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. In addition to plenty of cannonfire, battle strategy, peril, and passion―liberally sprinkled with wit and fine turns of phrase―Marryat's real-life naval experiences lend his novels a truly remarkable authenticity.

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