The good captain’s second novel, published in 1830, pits an admiral’s grandson against smugglers, pirates, sharks, and the French. After his father is hanged in a notorious mutiny and the death of his mother, Willy Seymore rises from ship’s boy to midshipman to lieutenant, unaware that he stands to inherit a vast estate.
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English Royal Navy officer for 25 years, and wrote stirring adventures of the high sea. A member of Charles Dickens’s literary circle, his pioneering maritime stories, which remain popular today, influenced Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, C. S. Forester, and Patrick O’Brian.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 430 ● ISBN 9781411448216 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.5 MB ● Edad 99-17 años ● Editorial Barnes & Noble ● Publicado 2011 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5863447 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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