Bøker av Captain Frederick Marryat

It was in the latter part of the month of June, of the year seventeen hundred and ninety something, that the angry waves of the Bay of Biscay were gradually subsiding, after a gale of wind as violent as it was unusual during that period of the year.

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a pioneer of the sea story. "Jacob Faithful," the tale of a boy born and rasied on a river-barge on the Thames, gives a picture of life in London and on the river in the early 19th century. [Facsimile reprint.]

The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat is a classic maritime ghost story that follows the adventures of Philip Vanderdecken, a young sailor determined to break the curse of the legendary ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman. Haunted by his father's fate as the captain of the doomed ship, Philip embarks on a perilous quest filled with supernatural encounters, danger at sea, and mysterious forces. Marryat's novel blends elements of nautical adventure with eerie supernatural themes.

Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war. This book tells the tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness.