Overview:
Frederick Marryat was England's most famous author in the years between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens; even more than that he was a naval hero of the Great War with Napoleon and it was his exploits and experiences in the Navy during those years that formed the core of his writing. Tom Pocock chronicles this extraordinary life with appropriate zest and the modern reader is left to ponder on the immoderation and versatility of lives lived in a more uncertain age. |
