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The King's Own

Capt Frederick Marryat author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Globe Pequot Press

Published:1st Apr '99

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William Seymour grows up on shipboard in the Royal Navy, after his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), and later, he is impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of an English captain who deliberately lost his frigate on a lee shore, in order to wreck a French line-of-battle ship.

"Marryat's greatness is undeniable." --Joseph Conrad
" Marryat's writing . . . is also absorbing and delightful." --J. S. Bratton, The Novel to 1900

ISBN: 9780935526561

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm

Weight: 513g

398 pages