The Frederick Marryat Library

fiction · EN

Step aboard and make sail with Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist, naval officer, and master storyteller of the age of sail. The Frederick Marryat Library presents his books in full: tales of young midshipmen, hard-weather sailors, shipwrecks, battles, strange adventures, comic misfortunes, and the unpredictable fortunes of life at sea. Here are stories written by a man who knew the quarterdeck, the gunroom, and the gale from experience. A man who understood that the best adventures seldom begin according to plan. So take your berth, keep a weather eye open, and join us for the complete works of one of the great storytellers of the nineteenth-century sea.