Poor Jack

Poor Jack

Frederick Marryat

Språken
FörlagBooklassic
ISBN9789635269457

It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor's son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. ("Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront boys, or mudlarks, to their chief.) In a rags-to-riches story Saunders eventually rises by his ow