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Poor Jack and The Settlers in Canada

Poor Jack and The Settlers in Canada

Frederick Marryat

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2026
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781434413192
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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens and an English Royal Navy officer known for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling. Poor Jack tell the story of tells Thomas Saunders, a sailor’s son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century; The Settlers in Canada follows a reasonably well-off family who lose their English estate and emigrate to a settlement near Lake Ontario.

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