Buy this book
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.
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Florida in fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Classic Literature, Thriller, Mexican War, 1846-1848, sexual identity issues, Florida, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Mexican war, 1846-1848, fiction, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, action & adventure, Romans, nouvellesPlaces
FloridaTimes
1846, the Florida KeysEdition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
05 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07
Jack Tier; or, the Florida Reef: Novel
2018, Independently Published
in English
1731579675 9781731579676
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
Apr 02, 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
1497525314 9781497525313
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
11
Jack Tier: Or, the Florida Reef
2011, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
in English
1411441370 9781411441378
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
12 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
13 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
14 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
15 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
16 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
17 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
18 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
19 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
20
Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef (Dodo Press)
September 24, 2007, Dodo Press
Paperback
in English
1406555835 9781406555837
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
21
Jack Tier (Large Print Edition)
September 27, 2006, BiblioBazaar
Paperback
in English
1426417411 9781426417412
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
22 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
23
Jack Tier or The Florida Reef
June 20, 2006, Echo Library
Paperback
in English
1406803324 9781406803327
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
24 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
25 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
26 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
27 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
28 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
29
Jack Tier; or, the Florida reef. by J. Fenimore Cooper
2004, Michigan Publishing
in English
1418102318 9781418102319
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
30 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
31 |
zzzz
|
32
Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
June 2003, IndyPublish.com
Hardcover
in English
1404383867 9781404383869
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
33
Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
June 2003, IndyPublish.com
Paperback
in English
1404383875 9781404383876
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
34
Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
March 2003, IndyPublish.com
Paperback
in English
140434523X 9781404345232
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
35
Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
March 2003, IndyPublish.com
Hardcover
in English
1404345221 9781404345225
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
36
Jack Tier: The Florida Reef
August 29, 2003, Fredonia Books (NL)
Paperback
in English
1410103463 9781410103468
|
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
37
Jack Tier; or, The Florida reef. By J. Fenimore Cooper.
January 1, 2001, University of Michigan Library
Hardcover
in English
141817209X 9781418172091
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
38 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
39 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
40
Jack Tier: or, The Florida reef. With an introd. by Susan Fenimore Cooper.
1899, G. Routledge
in English
- [Leatherstocking ed.]
|
zzzz
|
41
Jack Tier ; or, The Florida reef
1893, G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press
in English
- Leather-stocking ed.
|
zzzz
|
42 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
43 |
bbbb
|
44 |
aaaa
|
45 |
bbbb
|
46 |
zzzz
|
47 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
48 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
49 |
zzzz
|
50 |
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
51 |
zzzz
|
52 |
bbbb
|
53 |
bbbb
|
54 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
55 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
56 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
57 |
zzzz
|
58 |
zzzz
|
59 |
bbbb
|
60 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
61 |
zzzz
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 5 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
January 15, 2023 | Edited by mheiman | Merge works |
August 20, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
October 16, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | add edition to work page |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Internet Archive item record |