The King's Own (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Frederick Marryat

Overview

The good captain’s second novel, published in 1830, pits an admiral’s grandson against smugglers, pirates, sharks, and the French. After his father is hanged in a notorious mutiny and the death of his mother, Willy Seymore rises from ship’s boy to midshipman to lieutenant, unaware that he stands to inherit a vast estate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411448216
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	430
File size:	556 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English Royal Navy officer for 25 years, and wrote stirring adventures of the high sea. A member of Charles Dickens’s literary circle, his pioneering maritime stories, which remain popular today, influenced Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, C. S. Forester, and Patrick O’Brian.