Diary in America - With Remarks on Its Institutions

Informationen zum Autor Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy officer, author, and friend of Charles Dickens, lived from 10 July 1792 until 9 August 1848. Because of his semi-autobiographical work Mr. Midshipman Easy, he is regarded as an early pioneer of nautical fiction (1836). His children's book The Children of the New Forest (1847) and the Marryat's Code, a commonly used method of nautical flag signaling, are well remembered. The son of Joseph Marryat, a "commercial prince," a member of Parliament, a slave owner, and an opponent of abolition, and his American wife Charlotte, née von Geyer, Marryat was born in Great George Street, Westminster, London. Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy officer, author, and friend of Charles Dickens, lived from 10 July 1792 until 9 August 1848. Because of his semi-autobiographical work Mr. Midshipman Easy, he is regarded as an early pioneer of nautical fiction (1836). His children's book The Children of the New Forest (1847) and the Marryat's Code, a commonly used method of nautical flag signaling, are well remembered. The son of Joseph Marryat, a "commercial prince," a member of Parliament, a slave owner, and an opponent of abolition, and his American wife Charlotte, Marryat was born in Great George Street, Westminster, London. Klappentext In 1839, naval officer and novelist Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) published his impressions of North America in six volumes. Zusammenfassung Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) is remembered today as a novelist, but also wrote non-fiction. He spent 1837–8 travelling in North America, and published six volumes of observations in 1839. He was fascinated by the drive of Americans, but considered the country and people too heterogeneous to form a 'nation'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Diary in America, 1-21.

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• Authors: Captain Frederick Marryat, Frederick Marryat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9781108032414
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03241-4
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - North American History; A Diary in America 6 Volume Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, North America, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, TRAVEL / Canada / General, HISTORY / North America, TRAVEL / United States / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Published diaries, letters and journals