Synopses & Reviews
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 chaptermurder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.
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"This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity." —Alexander Kent
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"When your [Patrick] O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat." —Library Journal
About the Author
Captain Frederick Marryat (17921848) was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian. He survived fifty naval battles on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochranethe real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. In addition to plenty of cannonfire, battle strategy, peril, and passionliberally sprinkled with wit and fine turns of phraseMarryat's real-life naval experiences lend his novels a truly remarkable authenticity.