
Newton Forster or The Merchant Service
1864
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
384
Number of Pages
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 a British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter—murder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
43
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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