Newton Forster or The Merchant Service

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 bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter--murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935526447
• ISBN13: 9780935526448
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: McBooks Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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.