An edition of Jack Tier or the Florida Reef (1800)

Jack Tier

or, The Florida reef.

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An edition of Jack Tier or the Florida Reef (1800)

Jack Tier

or, The Florida reef.

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Jack Tier is a tale set against arms smuggling to Mexico in 1846. Under cover of respectable four shipping, Captain Stephen Spike is shipping gun powder to the Mexican government for use against the U.S. The Mexican official purchasing the powder is represented as an honorable and patriotic man. Spike carries along on the voyage a young ingenue, Rose Budd (the original title of the book), her silly aunt and an Irish servant. Young Rose is in love with the upright first mate, Harry Mulford, who does not want to smuggle powder, but who is too loyal to the ship (_not_ the captain) to quit. He ultimately rescues Rose from the sexual predation of Spike, although at first without benefit of clergy. In all of this, both Spike and the young lovers are aided at separate times by the seaman Jack Tier, who turns out to be a cross-dressing woman, who has shipped out as a man for the last twenty years, in search of the husband (Spike) who cruelly deserted her. Jack (who is not revealed as a woman until the second-to-last chapter) finally ends with Spike in her power; she is nursing him on his deathbed. Early on, Rose knew of Jack's true identity, and the two formed a loyal and lasting mutual aid society. There are no clear blacks or whites in this novel, although gray abounds. Jack's motive for hunting down Spike is left open, but hinted to be hatred and jilted anger masquerading as wifely love. Harry and Rose spend a night alone together before they are married. Although a traitor to his country, a smuggler, an outright murderer, a lecher, and a would-be bigamist, Spike is also portrayed as a first-rate sailor and captain. This is one of Cooper's best novels, although the edgy subject matter did not meet with approval in Victorian America.

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Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: The Florida Reef
August 29, 2003, Fredonia Books (NL)
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Jack Tier
1885, G. Munro
in English
Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: or, The Florida reef.
1884, Dana Estes & Co.
Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: or, the Florida reef
1877, D. Appleton and Co.
in English
Cover of: Jack Tier, or, The Florida reef
Jack Tier, or, The Florida reef
1872, Hurd and Houghton
in English
Cover of: Jack Tier: Or, The Florida Reef
Jack Tier: Or, The Florida Reef
1871, Hurd & Houghton
Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: or, The Florida reef.
1856, Stringer & Townsend
in English
Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: or, The Florida Reef
1856, Stringer and Townsend
- New ed.
Cover of: Jack Tier
Jack Tier: or, The Florida reef.
1852, Stringer and Townsend
- New ed.
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Edition Notes

Originally published in Graham's magazine under title: Rose Budd.

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New York
Series
The choice works of Cooper. Revised and corrected series,, v. 19

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.C786 Ja4, PS1407.J3 Ja4

The Physical Object

Pagination
511 p.
Number of pages
511

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6696491M
Internet Archive
jacktierorflorid00coop_0
LCCN
26024684
OCLC/WorldCat
4971808

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