Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter—murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-03-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 26 mm
Vikt:449 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Globe Pequot Press
ISBN:9780935526448

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