TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marryat,Frederick
TI  - Mr. Midshipman Easy
AV  - PR4977 .M7 1910
PY  - 1959///, 1906
CY  - London
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nautical
KW  - British Royal Navy
KW  - British naval history
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Shipboard life
KW  - Naval battles
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Historical
KW  - ssi
KW  - Classic
KW  - Adventure
KW  - War
KW  - Coming of age
N2  - A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval discipline! The author was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian. Captain Frederick Marryat survived fifty naval battles and served on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane - the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Mr. Midshipman Easy is said to have been inspired by Cochrane's adventures as a young midshipman
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