{"product_id":"9781935585053","title":"Peter Simple (Book Five Of The Marryat Cycle)","description":"From the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction \u003cp\u003eWhile Frederick Marryat had achieved commercial success with his previous books, Peter Simple was perhaps his first \"classic.\" Indeed, Peter Simple is considered by many to be the best of Captain Marryat's novels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Simple goes to sea as a young, naive, midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. He is taken under the wing of Terence O'Brien, a Master's Mate, who, a bit at a time, brings Peter into a mature adulthood. Together they form a kind of nautical Don Quixote\/Sancho Panza team that experiences the best and the worst that the nautical life has to offer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom cutting-out missions, to hurricanes, to mutiny, Peter Simple set the standard for presenting vivid characters and heart stopping adventure to the nautical reader. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Marryat's] stories depict, with detailed realism, those qualities of courage, seamanship, tyranny, cruelty, recklessness, and good fellowship, all of which combined to render the British Navy so formidable a fighting instrument.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.A. Buckley \u003cbr\u003eThe Guide to British \u003cbr\u003eHistorical Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fireship Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040364740848,"sku":"9781935585053","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935585053_p0.jpg?v=1763656229","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935585053","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}