In nineteenth-century parlance, a “poor jack” is a waterfront urchin, which is how we meet sailor’s son Thomas Saunders in Greenwich, England. Swept into the English Channel with his friend Bramble, he survives imprisonment in France, eventually making his fortune as a Thames River pilot. Marryat also paints a realistic portrait of contemporary home life.
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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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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 422 ● ISBN 9781411449886 ● Mărime fișier 0.4 MB ● Vârstă 99-17 ani ● Editura Barnes & Noble ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5863567 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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