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(0)Frederick Marryat
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The Phantom Ship (1839) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a fabled ghost ship doomed to sail the seas until the end of time, The Phantom Ship is a tale of adventure and Gothic horror from an author who served for decades in the British Royal Navy. Philip Vanderdecken had always feared this day would come. Raised by his mother in Terneuzen, he had grown accustomed to life without a father. During a voyage...
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"The Settlers in Canada" is an adventure novel on the Campbell family. Mr. Campbell and his family live the modest yet comfortable life of a surgeon. Following a season of tragedy occasioned by the death of Mr. Campbell's sister and her husband, the family grows to include the orphaned daughters. But good fortune smiles their way when a solicitor informs them that Mr. Campbell has inherited a large fortune, the kind that changes lives completely…...
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The Children of the New Forest (1847) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Although Marryat is more widely known for novels inspired by his experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, The Children of the New Forest is a historical children's novel set in the aftermath of the English Civil War. Bringing his readers into the world of danger and political intrigue that was England in the 17th century, Marryat earns his place as one of the leading adventure...
4) Peter Simple
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Peter Simple (1834) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Peter Simple is a tale of bravery, foolishness, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction. "If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess:...
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"Jacob Faithful" is a story of a guy who spent all his life on the river Thames, although he had many chances to start another life in a new place. His father was a Thames lighter, and he died and left Jacob a substantial sum of money. Yet, Jacob stays faithful to the river and takes over his father's profession. The book is a lyric account of life on the Thames as it was 200 years ago, with all its turbulence, danger, and pleasures.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific"" by Frederick Marryat. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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The King's Own' is a fictional depiction of the Nore mutiny, which were one of the two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. It was the first in an increasing series of outbreaks of maritime radicalism in the Atlantic World. The Nore mutiny was a more radical action, articulating political ideals as well, which eventually failed.
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Percival Keene (1842) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Percival Keene is a tale of bravery, identity, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction.
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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 shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining post on a British East India Company vessel.
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Struggles. It can be fears of rejection, abandonment, intimacy, being dependent, and maybe even fears within yourself. Struggles. Within relationships, family, and friends. Struggles. It can become an everyday thing until I found something to help me find my happiness. Ryan.
For you, my love. There are poems written for you. You have saved me from the darkness that I had once lived in. You stood me up when I had fell so many times in my life. You...
11) Poor Jack
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In nineteenth-century parlance, a "poor jack" is a waterfront urchin, which is how we meet sailor's son Thomas Saunders in Greenwich, England. Swept into the English Channel with his friend Bramble, he survives imprisonment in France, eventually making his fortune as a Thames River pilot. Marryat also paints a realistic portrait of contemporary home life.
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About the Book Fisheries as it were can be broadly classified into two, namely capture and culture fisheries. The capture aspect was one of the earliest occupations of man in trying to subdue his environment. This involved setting a trap for fish in any water body without doing anything to improve or replenish the fish stock. It was, assumed that the fish stock was inexhaustible, but this has since been proven wrong by the extinction of some fish...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet" by Frederick Marryat. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world...
14) Valerie
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Valerie' is an autobiographical-style fictional novel by Frederick Marryat. Valerie was born in France. Her father, who was of the ancienne noblesse of France, by a younger branch of the best blood, and was a most splendid specimen of the outward man, was the son of an old officer, and an officer himself in the army of Napoleon. In the conquest of Italy, he had served in the ranks, and continuing to follow Napoleon through all his campaigns, had arrived...
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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 and slavery, and Musgrave's journey into the arms of a beautiful woman-this last (1846) of Marryat's naval stories delivers vintage high-seas adventure.
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"Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer" by Frederick Marryat. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
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Two absorbing stories by the 19th-century Royal Navy officer and novelist Frederick Marryat. "The Pirate" is the tale of the reunion of two brothers separated at birth. One of them joins the navy, and the other gets adopted by a pirate. "The Three Cutters" tells what happens when a smuggler, a pleasure yacht, and a revenue schooner cross path.
20) The Mission
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mission" by Frederick Marryat. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.