Description

Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early 19th-century Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, braving hurricanes at sea, or scrambling aboard a French privateer with cutlass bared, Mildmay and his adventures live on!

Reviews

This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity.

Alexander Kent

When your [Patrick] O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat.

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