A biography of the 19th century sea novelist, Michael Scott, who lived at one of the most stirring periods of British and American history. the American War of Independence of 1776 just preceded his birth in 1789, the year of the French Revolution and he lived through the American War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the suppression of piracy and the slave trade in the Caribbean. This short biography is an attempt to attach something of his personality and character to his name