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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 chaptermurder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.

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      Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780935526448, 978-0935526448
      ISBN10: 0935526447

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      Book Synopsis
      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 chaptermurder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.

      Trade Review
      "This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity." --Alexander Kent
      "When your [Patrick] O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat." -- Library Journal

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