Frederick Marryat: 198 books

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.

Frank Mildmay ist ein verschlagener aber cleverer Seemann, der sich rasend schnell durch die Dienstgrade der Royal Navy des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts kämpft - koste es was es wolle ...

This is a missionary work and his goal is to teach young people about the history of South Africa and to admire Christian missionaries.

The great advantage of being the fool of the family--My destiny is decided, and I am consigned to a stockbroker as part of His Majesty's sea stock--Unfortunately for me Mr Handycock is a bear, and I get very little dinner. If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately...

I am about to write a very curious history as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands and being left to their own resources and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first...

The Pirate is about two brothers-twins-who are separated in childhood. One becomes a pirate, the other a naval officer. Eventually the one renounces the pirate life, and meets up with his twin. The good news is that, together, they go off in search of the pirates. The bad news is that they find them.

The children of aristocratic Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby, are believed to have died in the flames when their house is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are raised by Joseph Armitage, a gamekeeper in his cottage in the New Forest. The story describes the children's adaptation to the life of simple cottagers.

This 1834 maritime adventure transports the reader to London’s fabled port, aboard the lighters that ply the shifting tides of the Thames. Jacob loses both parents, becomes adopted by a wharf owner, and forges friendships with an old lighterman, his son, and their dog. Picaresque adventures catapult him to his place as a gentleman.

After many years of travel, during which I had seen men under almost every variety of government, religion, and climate, I looked round to discover if there were not still new combinations under which human nature was to be investigated. I had traversed the old country until satisfied, if not satiated;...

Newton Forster ist Handelsschiffer. Er wird für einige Zeit auf ein Kriegsschiff gepresst, tritt aber dann in die Dienste der East-India-Company und wir erleben die Geschichte aus dieser Perspektive. Zahlreiche Nebenhandlungen und der Humor des Autors, der mit dem von Smollet verglichen wird, machen...