num_pages: 342
description: 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.
language: English
title: Newton Forster or The Merchant Service
titlecomplete: Newton Forster or The Merchant Service (Classics of Nautical Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 42
publisher: Mcbooks Press