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Mr. Midshipman Easy
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Set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, 'Mr Midshipman Easy' follows the escapades of a young sailor who enters the king's service with some interesting ideas about discipline and equality in the British Royal Navy. Packed with humour and controversy, Mr Midshipman Easy is a can't-miss adventure!
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Peter Simple: Heart of Oak Sea Classics
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A classic novel about Nelson's navy by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848).
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The King's Own
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William Seymour grows up on shipboard in the Royal Navy, after his father is hanged during the Mutiny at the Nore (1797). Our young hero is later impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of an English captain who deliberately lost his frigate on a lee shore, in order to wreck a ...
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Percival Keene
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One of Marryat's most entertaining adventures, "Percival Keene" follows its namesake character, a low-born seaman, on a mission to discover and claim his true parentage and identity.
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The Pirate & the Three Cutters
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From the legendary adventures of Robinson Crusoe to the tribulations and trials of C.S. Forester's "Horatio Hornblower", the great characters of the sea-faring novel have long been etched into the national consciousness. One of the authors whose work stood on the prow amidst the first breaking waves of this genre was Captain Frederick Marryat. ...
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Frank Mildmay or the Naval Officer
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Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early 19th-century Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, braving hurricanes at sea or scrambling aboard a French privateer with cutlass bared, Mildmay and his adventures live on!
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Peter Simple
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A classic novel about Nelson's navy by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848).
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Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
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A dog named Snarleyyow accompanies his sea captain /owner on a sea voyage during the era of the Jacobite conspiracy.
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The Phantom Ship
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A sharply written tale of adventure on the seas, the story of "The Phantom Ship" will grip the reader from the outset, drawing one in to the vibrant world of Captain Marryat's imagination. It is the story of one Phillip Vanderdecken, and his search for a piece of the 'one true cross'. But it is still more than that. From the writer who inspired ...
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Masterman Ready
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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The pacha of many tales
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Let him approach, that our ears may be gratified. Barek Allah! Praise be to God. There are others who can obtain stories besides the Caliph Haroun." The slave was ...
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Newton Forster or the Merchant Service
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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 the British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter-murder, insanity, press gangs, prisons, pirates, treachery, and romance! Marryat's non-stop action ...
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The Poacher
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you have; lose not a moment; quick, woman, quick." And Rushbrook appeared to be in an agony. Jane hastened to the cupboard, opened a small box, and poured the ...
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Poor Jack
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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Olla Podrida
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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Jacob Faithful
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JACOB FAITHFUL. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME - 1838 - - CHAPTER I. - MY BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND FAMILY PRETENSIONS - UNFORTUNATELY I PROVE TO BE A DETRIMENTAL OR YOUNGER SON, WHICH IS REMEDIED BY A TRIFLING ACCIDENT - I HARDLY RECEIVE THE FIRST ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE FROM MY FATHER, WHEN THE ELEMENTS CONSPIRE AGAIXST ME, AND I AM LEFT AN ORPHAN. GENT r L ead ...
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The Privateersman
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The story of a privateer turned-adventurer, Alexander Musgrave, whose exploits take him across three continents and into the arms of a beautiful young woman. His compelling adventures make up the last sea story written by Marryat.
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Japhet in Search of a Father
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
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William D Faulkner, Frederick Marryat, Captain
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Settlers in Canada
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations: With a Selection of Sentences Adapted for Convoys, and a System of Geometrical Signals (1854)
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Frederick Marryat, Captain, G B Richardson
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Frank Mildmay
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It can be argued that modern nautical fiction began with this book-the first that flowed from Frederick Marryat's pen. Written in 1829, it follows the adventures of Frank Mildmay as he enters the Royal Navy and begins his rocky climb up the career ladder. Marryat intentionally made Mildmay a rake and a hell-raiser so that people would not confuse ...
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Diary in America
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: can always see such and such objects of interest whenever we please, we very often procrastinate until we never see them at all. I knew an old gentleman who having ...
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Poor Jack Volume 10
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Who my grandfather was I cannot inform the reader nor is it perhaps of much consequence. My father was a man who invariably looked forward and hated anything like retrospection: he never mentioned either his father or his mother; perhaps he was not personally acquainted with them.
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The Mission or Scenes in Africa
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to ...
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