This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity.
Description
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 a British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter—murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.
Pages352
Released1998
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGlobe Pequot Publishing
ISBN9781590132005
SellerSimon & Schuster
Reviews
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
