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Newton Forster or The Merchant Service

Capt Frederick Marryat author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Globe Pequot Press

Published:1st Mar '98

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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