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A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this book follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's Service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval discipline!

Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the nineteenth-century Royal Navy.

From V12 Of The Works Of Captain Marryat.

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Frank is a young boy who has been stranded on a desert island with his father's murderer. Growing up on this island and facing brutal treatment from the murderer, Jackson, Frank acts like a "savage". This book tells the story of how Jackson overthrows Jackson and comes to be more civilized.

About a man called Joseph Rushbrook who begins as an assistant poacher. He then begins to travel around, working different jobs and staying in different places. It's a glimpse into history through his life.

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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.

Privateers were essentially freelance ships, sanctioned during wartime to sail and do battle on behalf of adversary governments, and this tale follows Alexander Musgrave, a privateer-turned-adventurer, across three continents and into the arms of a beautiful woman.

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.

A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this book follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval discipline!