The Phantom Ship (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Frederick Marryat

Overview

Including a famous chapter starring a werewolf, Captain Marryat’s 1839 supernatural sea saga retells the legend of The Flying Dutchman. Philip Vanderdecken is on a maritime quest to rescue his cursed father. Wearing a relic of the Holy Cross, Philip has a chance to lift the curse—if he can find the doomed wanderer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411449879
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	434 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English Royal Navy officer for 25 years, and wrote stirring adventures of the high sea. A member of Charles Dickens’s literary circle, his pioneering maritime stories, which remain popular today, influenced Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, C. S. Forester, and Patrick O’Brian.