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  • Frank Mildmay

    or, The Naval Officer

    A midshipman's career in the Napoleonic navy - the prizes, the floggings, the fever and a captain worth following. Marryat had done all of it as a boy under Cochrane, and this first novel invented the sea story as the English know it. This edition adds fifty-five plates of marine painting, among them Turner, Munch and Thomas Luny, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured. ... Read more

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  • Percival Keene

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Percival Keene is a spirited naval adventure that follows a young man shaped by danger, ambition, and the strict codes of maritime society. Captain Marryat blends humor, action, and sharp social observation as Percival moves from family humiliation and comic household chaos to the hazards of war, capture, and hard-won self-discovery. His mother's rise from disgrace into independence, running a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Masterman Ready

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Caught between a young boy's curiosity and a veteran sailor's hard-earned wisdom, The Coral Island opens with the Pacific battling a violent Atlantic storm and the Seagrave family bound for a new life in Australia. Captain Osborn, the irritable but capable Mackintosh, and the calm, resourceful Masterman Ready help guide William Seagrave through danger, while the family's brave servant Juno and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Privateer's-man, One Hundred Years Ago

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's privateer tale plunges into the brutal world of prize-taking, where courage, greed, and conscience collide on the high seas and along the Caribbean coast. A young narrator aboard the Revenge recalls a savage chase off Hispaniola, where a French ship carrying a planter's family is boarded in hand-to-hand fighting, and the victory leaves him horrified by the bloodshed, the widow's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Newton Forster

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service launches with a comic, combative narrator who mocks critics, defends storytelling, and turns from literary satire to the hard realities of naval life. That restless, self-aware voice gives way to a storm-lashed seaside drama, where retired officer Edward Forster leaves his cottage to answer a gunshot in the night and help a ship in distress ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Diary in America

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's Diary in America, Series Two offers a sharp, witty, and often satirical portrait of the young United States, seen through the skeptical eye of a celebrated British sailor-novelist. Moving from stage-coaches and steam-boats to railroads and western rivers, he records the country's restless energy, crowded travel, and comic discomforts: broken windows, leaking roofs, mud, noise, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Settlers in Canada

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In 1791, the Campbell family leaves England for the unsettled wilds of Canada, where surgeon Mr. Campbell, his wife Emily, their children, and two orphaned nieces must build a life from hardship and hope. A mysterious inheritance soon transforms their modest security into the grandeur of Wexton Hall, but the gift brings responsibility, social influence, and a painful legal challenge when a rival ... Read more

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  • Masterman Ready; Or, the Wreck of the "pacific"

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    A storm-tossed voyage, a castaway's hard-earned wisdom, and a family's struggle to build a future at the edge of the world give Masterman Ready its vivid adventure. From the first gale that drives the Pacific through the Atlantic, the novel blends danger, endurance, and faith with practical seamanship, introducing the calm, capable Captain Osborn, the stern Mackintosh, and the resourceful old ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Olla Podrida

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's Olla Podrida is a brisk, satirical medley of travel writing, social comedy, and political observation, driven by a narrator whose mind is haunted by "Politicophobia," the curse of seeing Parliament and party conflict everywhere. From London drawing rooms to family meals, dances, the countryside, and even the sea, politics invades ordinary life until escape seems possible only ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Mission

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's The Mission; or Scenes in Africa follows Alexander Wilmot on a journey that begins as an act of filial devotion and becomes a full-scale adventure across the southern African frontier. Moved by his grand-uncle Sir Charles's lifelong grief over the lost survivors of the Grosvenor wreck, Alexander sails from Portsmouth in hopes of bringing back news that may ease the old ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Privateersman

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In Captain Marryat's The Privateersman, a young seaman is swept into the dangerous, prize-hunting world of privateering, where courage, loyalty, and survival are tested in every storm and skirmish. One of the novel's most gripping episodes follows the battered Revenge as it is hunted by two enemy schooners, with Captain Weatherall rallying his exhausted crew through cannon fire, boarding actions, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Peter Simple

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's Peter Simple launches with the comic misfortunes of a self-described "fool of the family," an awkward young man pushed into naval service and into a world far rougher than his rural upbringing has prepared him for. Sent first to London and then on to Portsmouth, Peter endures family embarrassment, stock-market anxieties, coach-road absurdities, and the first shocks of seafaring ... Read more

    $1.99 USD