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The old sea-dog, Captain Spike of the brigantine "Molly Swash, " calls out the order to first mate Mulford: the ship casts off with the tide — and young Rose Budd is to be aboard!
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For Rose and her kindly aunt, it is to be a voyage for rest, recuperation, and escape from a world beset with worries and the rampant "pulmonary" disease, tuberculosis. As they soon learn, however, the best-planned vacations can go in unexpected directions — toward romance, perhaps . . . and more alarmingly toward danger.
The great American critic Van Wyck Brooks lauded "Jack Tier" for its describing "one of those fine, free, leisurely voyages around the world — voyages that made men out of boys and abounded in shipwrecks and perilous adventures." Originally serialized as "Rose Budd" in the popular "Graham's Magazine, " the novel ranks among Cooper's finest tales of the sea.
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