[Gutenberg 21557] • Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service
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- Authors
- Marryat, Frederick
- Publisher
- McBooks Press
- Tags
- historical fiction , naval -- 19th century -- fiction , romantic suspense fiction , adventure , east india company -- fiction , sea stories , merchant mariners -- fiction , great britain -- history
- ISBN
- 9780935526448
- Date
- 1864-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
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.