Newton Forster or The Merchant Service
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Globe Pequot Press
Published:1st Mar '98
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter—murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.
"This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity." --Alexander Kent
"When your [Patrick] O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat." -- Library Journal
ISBN: 9780935526448
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
Weight: 449g
342 pages