Newton Forster or The Merchant Service

by Frederick Marryat

Genres: Action & Adventure; Sea Adventures; Historical Fiction

Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing

Print pages: 342