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Children of the New Forest (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth (1642-1660), this novel for young readerspublished in 1847remains one of Marryats most popular. The aristocratic children of …
Jacob Faithful (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1834 maritime adventure transports the reader to Londons fabled port, aboard the lighters that ply the shifting tides of the Thames. Jacob loses both parents, becomes adopted …
Poor Jack (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In nineteenth-century parlance, a poor jack is a waterfront urchin, which is how we meet sailors son Thomas Saunders in Greenwich, England. Swept into the English Channel with his …
Japhet, in Search of a Father (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Reared as a foundling, and apprenticed to an apothecary, Japhets good looks and matchless talent for lying carry him through the guises of tramp, mountebank, quack doctor, …
King's Own (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The good captains second novel, published in 1830, pits an admirals grandson against smugglers, pirates, sharks, and the French. After his father is hanged in a notorious mutiny …
Privateersman (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Alexander Musgrave narrates his own yarn as a legalized pirate, sailing under a letter of marque to harass the enemy. The story includes the capture of a French ship, shark attacks …
Mr. Midshipman Easy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This semiautobiographical 1836 novel of the Napoleonic Wars reflects the authors quarter century in the British Navy. Young, spoiled Jack Easy finds his egalitarian ideas …
Masterman Ready (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Marryat wrote this 1841 novel for his children, who requested a sequel to Wysss Swiss Family Robinson. The father tried to oblige with the original tale about a family shipwrecked …
Settlers in Canada (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Informed by Marryats military service in Canada, this 1844 childrens novel is set in the North American wilderness of the 1770s. The Campbell family, stripped of its estate, flees …
Newton Forster (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Pirates, madness, and murder feature in this early (1832) high-seas thriller. Impressed into the British Navy, troubled young Newton Forster endures imprisonment in France and a …
Phantom Ship (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Including a famous chapter starring a werewolf, Captain Marryats 1839 supernatural sea saga retells the legend of The Flying Dutchman. Philip Vanderdecken is on a maritime quest to …