Mr. Midshipman Easy

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. “Mr. Midshipman Easy” is the adventurous youth of a nineteenth-century literary hero who leaves the luxury of his father''s estate to suffer the realities of growing up at sea in his Majesty''s service.