Newton Forster; Or The Merchant Service
Frederick Marryat
Publisher: Good Press
Summary
'Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service' is a novel by the British writer Frederick Marryat. Like much of Marryat's work it is a seafaring novel about a young man impressed into the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He is subsequently imprisoned by the French, shipwrecked in the West Indies and makes a success in trading in the East Indies.