This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity.
Description
After his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), William Seymour grows up on board a ship in the Royal Navy and later is impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of an English captain who deliberately lost his frigate on a lee shore in order to wreck a French line-of-battle ship.
Pages400
Released1999
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGlobe Pequot Publishing
ISBN9781590134986
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
