Publisher description for Percival Keene / Frederick Marryat ; foreword by Dean King ; introduction by Louis Parascandola.
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One of Marryat's most entertaining follows adventures, Percival Keene follows namesake character, a low-born seaman, on a mission to discover and claim his true parentage and identity. Young Keene ures battles both great and small, a stint on board a pirate ship, a stormy romance, and near-execution at the hands of Napoleon himself, all told with Marryat's trademark panache. A page-turning nautical yarn with brilliant historical re-creations of life and war at sea.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.