Mr Midshipman Easy
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Independently Published, 2025
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 50 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798347318452 MWT17723738, 17723738
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Graham Scott
Young Jack Easy, full of his wealthy philosopher father's impractical notions of the rights of man and perfect equality - and failing to find much sympathy for them on land - resolves to join the navy, reasoning that "although the whole earth has been so nefariously divided among the few, that the waters at least are the property of all." He soon finds, though, that life in the Royal Navy is not quite the egalitarian ideal that he had expected, and is a good deal more
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