Frederick Marryat
1) Poor Jack
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In nineteenth-century parlance, a "poor jack" is a waterfront urchin, which is how we meet sailor's son Thomas Saunders in Greenwich, England. Swept into the English Channel with his friend Bramble, he survives imprisonment in France, eventually making his fortune as a Thames River pilot. Marryat also paints a realistic portrait of contemporary home life.
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Reared as a foundling, and apprenticed to an apothecary, Japhet's good looks and matchless talent for lying carry him through the guises of tramp, mountebank, quack doctor, gentleman-about-town, and finally the only son of a wealthy general. Published in 1836, Captain Marryat's picaresque seventh book was his first "landlocked" story.
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Percival Keene (1842) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Percival Keene is a tale of bravery, identity, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction.
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Pirates, madness, and murder feature in this early (1832) high-seas thriller. Impressed into the British Navy, troubled young Newton Forster endures imprisonment in France and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining post on a British East India Company vessel.
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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.
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Alexander Musgrave narrates his own yarn as a legalized pirate, sailing under a letter of marque to harass the enemy. The story includes the capture of a French ship, shark attacks and slavery, and Musgrave's journey into the arms of a beautiful woman-this last (1846) of Marryat's naval stories delivers vintage high-seas adventure.
10) The King's Own
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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.
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Struggles. It can be fears of rejection, abandonment, intimacy, being dependent, and maybe even fears within yourself. Struggles. Within relationships, family, and friends. Struggles. It can become an everyday thing until I found something to help me find my happiness. Ryan.
For you, my love. There are poems written for you. You have saved me from the darkness that I had once lived in. You stood me up when I had fell so many times in my life. You...
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Caught between, a mentally ill mother and a stepfather with undiagnosed PTSD, Author Wendell Affield's childhood was, marked by family dysfunction. In this memoir, which includes nearly 100 illustrations, he recounts growing up on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota in the 1950s.
Musty letters, documents, and sixty-year-old photo negatives conjured memories as Affield, pored over them.
In a grainy negative beneath the magnifying glass, Affield...
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Wreck of the Pacific (1841) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Wreck of the Pacific is a tale of disaster and survival on the high seas. Responding to such novels as Robinson Crusoe (1719) and The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), Marryat hoped to tell an entertaining story with a Christian moral while remaining true to the dangers of nautical life. "I am an old man, and it is of little...
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About the Book Fisheries as it were can be broadly classified into two, namely capture and culture fisheries. The capture aspect was one of the earliest occupations of man in trying to subdue his environment. This involved setting a trap for fish in any water body without doing anything to improve or replenish the fish stock. It was, assumed that the fish stock was inexhaustible, but this has since been proven wrong by the extinction of some fish...