Newton Forster: or, The merchant service, By Frederick Marryat (Classics): Captain Frederick Marryat

By Frederick Marryat

Book Overview

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 a British East India Company vessel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534642501
• ISBN13: 9781534642508
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

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.