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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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.
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 422 ● ISBN 9781411449886 ● Filstorlek 0.4 MB ● Ålder 99-17 år ● Utgivare Barnes & Noble ● Publicerad 2011 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5863567 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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