The Privateersman (Book Fourteen of the Marryat Cycle) - Softcover

Marryat, Captain Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935585142 ISBN 13: 9781935585145

Publisher: Fireship Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Privateersman, written in 1846, was the last of Frederick Marryat's nautically oriented novels, although one of his best non-nautical works, Children of the New Forest, still lay ahead of him. Privateers were essentially legalized pirates. They functioned like the illegal variety; but they carried a document from their government authorizing them to prey on the merchant ships of a specific enemy country. This document is what kept them from being hung as pirates should they be caught. After capturing a ship, they would bring it into an approved port where the ship's goods, along with the ship itself, would be sold. The government got a cut, the ship's officers and crew got a cut, and the investors got a return on their money which allowed them to send the privateer out again. The Privateersman is set in the early 1700s and gives us a keen insight into the world of privateering. Combine that insight with nonstop action and Marryat's unique dry wit, and you have a tremendously entertaining read.

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1792-1848

About this edition

• Publisher: Fireship Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935585142
• ISBN 13: 9781935585145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276