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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. ... Read more

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  • Japhet in Search of a Father

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Japhet Newland begins life as a foundling, anonymously left at the Foundling Hospital with a note hinting at legitimate birth and possible reclamation. Raised amid hardship, he is apprenticed at fourteen to the bustling apothecary Mr. Phineas Cophagus, where comic discipline, market chaos, and the hard labor of pounding drugs become his education in both medicine and society. With the help of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's The Poacher begins in the English countryside, where drink, mischief, and lawbreaking lurk beneath a comic surface. A stormy Devonshire night, a drunken schoolmaster, a crafty pedlar, and a seemingly helpless invalid quickly give way to a stealthy family outing that reveals the hidden world of poaching, secrecy, and survival just beyond respectable society. At the center stands ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Little Savage

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's The Little Savage opens with a fierce survival story and a haunting question: what becomes of a child raised outside ordinary human life? Frank Henniker grows up on a remote island with only a brutal, secretive guardian, learning hunger, labor, fear, and silence long before he understands language, family, or the world beyond the sea. The island itself is both prison and provider ... 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jacob Faithful

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful launches into the bustling, perilous world of the Thames with a boy alone on a river lighter, terrified by his father's death yet determined to carry out his last instructions. Taken in by the wharfinger's family, Jacob is thrust from river-bred innocence into the baffling customs of shore life, where kindness, exploitation, and comic discomfort mingle ... 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

  • Poor Jack

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's Poor Jack follows the fortunes of a plainspoken sailor whose life is shaped by shipboard discipline, comic hardship, and the rough pride of working-class naval culture. Jack's story begins with his father's unlikely rise and fall in the world of the frigate Druid, where pompous officers, sharp-tongued women, and social pretensions collide in a satire of rank, marriage, ... Read more

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  • 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