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.
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When all your Patrick O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat -- Library Journal, August 1997
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) 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 Cochrane—the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. In addition to plenty of cannonfire, battle strategy, peril, and passion—liberally sprinkled with wit and fine turns of phrase—Marryat's real-life naval experiences lend his novels a truly remarkable authenticity.
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This review is from: Newton Forster or The Merchant Service (Classics of Nautical Fiction) (Paperback)
O.K. O.K. Marryat's books tend to be full of unlikely circumstances and coincidences and sappy, happy endings. On the other hand, his novels are naval action adventures of the Napoleanic age written by a man who was actually a captain in the nineteenth century British navy, albeit somewhat after the Napoleanic Wars. As long as you sit back and enjoy the story, the adventures and misadventures of Newton Forster are just plain fun. And, remember, this book was written more than a century before Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey had even been thought of.
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Captain Drawlock, Captain Oughton, Windsor Castle, Captain Carrington, Edward Forster, Madame de Fontanges, Miss Dragwell, Miss Tavistock, Isabel Revel, Doctor Plausible, Lord Aveleyn, Miss Revel, Monsieur de Fontanges, John Forster, Gustave Adolphe, Bombay Castle, East India, William Aveleyn, West Indies, Boy Jack, Major Clavering, Nicholas Forster, Doctor Feasible, Colonel Ellice, Julie de Fontanges Browse Sample Pages:
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