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About the middle of the seventeenth century, in the outskirts of the small but fortified town of Terneuse, situated on the right bank of the Scheldt, and nearly opposite to the island of Walcheren, there was to be seen, in advance of a few other even more humble tenements, a... Read Full Overview

El buque fantasma cuenta la leyenda de El Holand s Errante (The Flying Dutchman en ingl s), un barco fantasma que, seg n la tradici n, no pudo volver a puerto, condenado a vagar para siempre por los oc anos del mundo. El velero es siempre oteado en la distancia, a veces resplandeciendo... Read Full Overview

The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman and, in one chapter, features a werewolf. The plot concerns the quest of Philip Vanderdecken of Terneuzen in the Netherlands to save his father - who has been doomed... Read Full Overview

The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Plot introduction: The plot concerns the quest of Philip Vanderdecken of Terneuzen in the Netherlands to save his father - who has been doomed to sail for eternity... Read Full Overview

Presents a story of one Phillip Vanderdecken and his search for a piece of the 'one true cross', from the writer who inspired Herman Melville to take to the sea. This book offers an examination of the theme of religious tolerance.

The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman and, in one chapter, features a werewolf.The plot concerns the quest of Philip Vanderdecken of Terneuzen in the Netherlands to save his father - who has been doomed... Read Full Overview

The quintessential sea adventure novel, El buque fantasma unfolds the myth of the Flying Dutchman, the story of a ghost ship that failed to return to port and was doomed to roam the world's oceans forever. The powerful story is perfect for lovers of the supernatural... Read Full Overview

The Phantom Ship (1839) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a fabled ghost ship doomed to sail the seas until the end of time, The Phantom Ship is a tale of adventure and Gothic horror from an author who served... Read Full Overview

This is the tale of Philip Vanderdecken's search for his cursed father, the captain of The Flying Dutchman, a spectral ship that haunts the seas around the Cape of Good Hope, condemned to sail and torment sailors until the Day of Judgement.

The Phantom Ship (1839) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a fabled ghost ship doomed to sail the seas until the end of time, The Phantom Ship is a tale of adventure and Gothic horror from an author who served... Read Full Overview

THE PHANTOM SHIP is the most notable of the three novels constructed by Marryat on an historic basis, and like its predecessor in the same category, Snarleyyow, depends largely for its interest on the element of diablerie, which is very skilfully manipulated. Here, however, the... Read Full Overview

Excerpt: ...trial, but the condemnation and punishment of any person guilty of mutiny and insubordination in his fleet. In reply, he told the commodore that he was a prisoner, and to prove it, he confined him in irons under the half-deck. A signal was then made for all the captains:... Read Full Overview