Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a pioneer of the sea story. "Jacob Faithful," the tale of a boy born and rasied on a river-barge on the Thames, gives a picture of life in London and on the river in the early 19th century. [Facsimile reprint.] Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге "Jacob Faithful" and "The Mission" (Frederick Marryat)