Pirates, madness, and murder feature in this early (1832) high-seas thriller. Impressed into the British Navy, troubled young Newton Forster endures imprisonment in France and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining post on a British East India Company vessel.
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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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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 394 ● ISBN 9781411449855 ● Filstorlek 0.4 MB ● Ålder 99-17 år ● Utgivare Barnes & Noble ● Publicerad 2011 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5863565 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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