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.
Kirjailija
Frederick Marryat
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 615 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1993–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Newton Forster, or, The merchant service. By: Frederick Marryat. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
615 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1993–2026.
Privateers were essentially freelance ships, sanctioned during wartime to sail and do battle on behalf of adversary governments, and this tale follows Alexander Musgrave, a privateer-turned-adventurer, across three continents and into the arms of a beautiful woman.
Set in 1699 and framed around the Jacobite (supporters of the overthrown king, James II) conspiracies of the time, Lieutenant Cornelius Vanslyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Channel. Snarleyyow is his "indestructible" dog.
William Seymour grows up on shipboard in the Royal Navy, after his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), and later, he is 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 French line-of-battle ship.
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 British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter—murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.
A wealthy young man experiences life aboard an English ship and adventures at sea during the Napoleonic wars
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1993
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Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines to survive in a hostile world make for a gripping read.