Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service

By Frederick Marryat

Book Overview

Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service is a nautical adventure novel by Frederick Marryat, first published in 1832. The novel follows the life of Newton Forster, a young man who becomes entangled in a series of dramatic and dangerous situations at sea. From shipwrecks to pirates and naval battles, Forster navigates through the turbulent world of the merchant service, rising from misfortune to eventual success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479447765
• ISBN13: 9781479447763
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A good naval romp

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.