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Newton Forster or The Merchant Service
Published by McBooks Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: McBooks Press (March 1, 1998)
- Length: 352 pages
- ISBN13: 9781590132005
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