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Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service is an 1832 novel by the British writer Frederick Marryat. Like much of Marryat's work it is a seafaring novel about a young man impressed into the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He is subsequently imprisoned by the French, shipwrecked in the West Indies and makes a success in trading in the East ...
May 21, 2007 · Newton Forster, for thus had he been christened by his father, out of respect for the great Sir Isaac, who was now about seventeen years’ old—athletic and well proportioned in person, handsome in features, and equally gifted in mind. There was a frankness and sincerity in his open brow, an honesty in his smile, which immediately won upon ...
Newton Forster, the master of a coastal brig, is illegally pressed into the Royal Navy. Through a variety of maneuvers, however, he winds up on an East Indiaman where he...
- Frederick Marryat
- Fireship Press, 2009
- 1935585045, 9781935585046
- Newton Forster
'Newton Forster' (1832), often viewed as one of his most engaging novels, embodies this style with its tale of a young man's journey through perilous maritime escapades and...
Newton Forster, or, The merchant service by Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. Publication date 1998 Topics East India Company -- Fiction, Merchant mariners -- Fiction ...
Feb 13, 2009 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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...
