Avail Yourself Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, And Adventurer Created By Tom Pocock Readily Available As Audiobook

Marryat was England's most famous author in the years between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens even more than that he was a naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars and it was his exploits in the Royal Navy during those years that formed the core of his writing.
Marryat's whole life was as fantastic as anything in his books, Biographer Tom Pocock chronicles Marryat's extraordinary life with appropriate zest, leaving the modern reader to ponder on the immoderation and versatility of lives in a more uncertain age.
Tom Pocock was the author ofbooks and editor of two , mostly biographies but including two about his experiences as a newspaper war correspondent.
Born in London inthe son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock he was educated at Westminster School and Cheltenham College, joining the Royal Navy in.
He was at sea during the invasion of Normandy and, having suffered from ill health, returned to civilian life and inbecame a war correspondent at the age of, the youngest of the Second World War.
After four years wth the Hulton Press current affairs magazine group, he moved to the Daily Mail as feature writer and then Naval Correspondent, becoming Naval Correspondent of The Times in.
In, he was a for Tom Pocock was the author ofbooks and editor of two , mostly biographies but including two about his experiences as a newspaper war correspondent.
Born in London inthe son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock he

was educated at Westminster School and Cheltenham College, joining the Royal Navy in.
He was at sea during the invasion of Normandy and, having suffered from ill health, returned to civilian life and inbecame a war correspondent at the age of, the youngest of the Second World War.
After four years wth the Hulton Press current affairs magazine group, he moved to the Daily Mail as feature writer and then Naval Correspondent, becoming Naval Correspondent of The Times in.
In, he was a foreign corresponent and special writer for the Daily Express and fromwas on the staff of the Evening Standard,as feature writer,Defence Correspondent and war correspondent.
For the last decade of his time on the Standard he was Travel Editor, He wrote his first book, NELSON AND HIS WORLD inon his return from reporting the violence in Aden and his interest in Nelson has continued.
Indeed, eight of his books are about the admiral and his contemporaries his HORATIO NELSON was runner up for the Whitbread Biography Award of.
Tom Pocock has contributed to many magazines and appeared on television documentaries about Nelson and the subject of another of his biographies,the novelist and imperialist Sir Rider Haggard.
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