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The King's Own

by Frederick Marryat · 1837

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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.

Genre
adventureadventureMore like thisLess of thisGeorgian and 18th centuryGeorgian and 18th centuryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
nauticalnauticalMore like thisLess of this
Setting
18th century18th centuryMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 398 pages

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