Jacob Faithful

Frederick Marryat

Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction, Picaresque literature, Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction, Sea stories, Thames River (England) -- Fiction, Seafaring life -- Fiction, Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction, PR, Barges -- Fiction, I

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This 1834 maritime adventure transports the reader to London's fabled port, aboard the lighters that ply the shifting tides of the Thames. Jacob loses both parents, becomes adopted by a wharf owner, and forges friendships with an old lighterman, his son, and their dog. Picaresque adventures catapult him to his place as a gentleman.

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