Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Thomas Whitcombe, Robert Dodd and Philip James de Loutherbourg. A midshipman's career in the Napoleonic navy - the prizes, the floggings, the fever and a captain worth following. Marryat had done all of it as a boy under Cochrane, and this first novel invented the sea story as the English know it. This edition adds fifty-five plates of marine painting, among them Turner, Munch and Thomas Luny, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured.