William Clark Russell And The Victorian Nautical Novel

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

Geoffrey Fenton is a second-rate officer who embarks on the ship called Saracen. On the high seas, they have an encounter with a brig who claims to have sighted the mythical ghost ship of the Flying Dutchman, cursed ship that can never reach land, condemned to sail forever and ever, bringing bad luck to any ship that crosses its path. This information starts haunting the captain of the Saracen due to the contagious bad luck that this may entail and it turns out to be right when Fenton suffers an accident. He gets rescued by the ghostly crew of the Flying Dutchmen and the infamous Captain Vanderdecken. His only mission becomes to escape from the Death Ship.

The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a gripping adventure novel that features the life on a trading ship during its journey across the Atlantic. As the "Grosvenor" makes headway there are rumblings among the crew with each passing day. Things rapidly reach boiling point, the mutiny takes place and the only one who seems to be able to rise to the occasion is the second officer Edward Royle, who will make an attempt to save the lives of the innocent from that chaos.

William Clark Russell (1844 -1911) was an English writer best known for his nautical novels. He wrote short stories, press articles, historical essays, biographies and a book of verse, but was known best for his novels, most of which were about life at sea. The Wreck of the Grosvenor was the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea. Russell wrote a total of 57 novels. In this book: The Wreck of the Grosvenor The Frozen Pirate My Danish Sweetheart A Marriage at Sea

Betwixt the Forelands is a novel by William Clark Russell, one of the most popular and prolific writers of nautical fiction in the late nineteenth century. Set aboard a ship travelling from England to Australia, it tells the story of a young sailor who falls in love with a passenger and must navigate the dangers of the high seas and the class divisions of Victorian society. With its vivid descriptions of life on a sailing ship, this book is an exciting and engaging read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell. Published nearly a century after the actual Wreck of the Grosvenor, in 1782. Coincidentally the novel has the same name but is otherwise unrelated. It was the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea. It remained popular and widely read in into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel. Russell noted in a preface, that the novel found its first and best welcome in the United States.

After a career at sea that caused his health to deteriorate, William Clark Russell retired and turned his attention to writing. Though he published several novels before The Wreck of the Grosvenor, this action-packed account of growing tensions among a ship's crew that eventually erupt into full-blown mutiny was his first major success.