Nasty Jack: A Roaring Tale of the Sea, 1800
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This book is set during the Napoleonic Wars. Jack Lampray is the opposite of a conscientious young British naval officer. He hates his older brother, Norman, and sets out to destroy him. He wants to inherit Eagle Crest, the family home, and leave Norman out in the cold.
When his father disapproves of Jack’s lady friend, Jack is sent away to sea to serve under a friend of his fathers. Brother Norman soon follows. Jack manages to smile all the while, but secretly plans to level misery on his crew when no one is looking. He tries to kill brother Norman several times but fails each time.
Jack’s mean personality encourages his crew to secretly do him in when the officers are looking the other way. If there is anything evil that a man could do aboard ship, Jack has plans to do it. He even succeeds in cuckolding his captain aboard ship when the poor man has brought his wife aboard so he can get her with child.
Stu is a friend of Jacks, not by choice so much as because of a morbid fascination with the man and how he can continually fool so many people and get away with it. Most of the officers see Jack as a model officer. Stu stays with Jack to the bitter end taking notes on his perverted mind, preparing to write this story of his pathetic life.
Eventually Jack becomes disillusioned with the British Navy and leaves, taking a number of East Enders with him. They become pirates, but call themselves “privateersmen.” Eventually Jack ends up in China in the opium dens and becomes addicted. He is already suffering from venereal disease and is most sickly.
Stu tries to conserve what little money they have left and takes him back to the Caribbean to die in a naval hospital. Before he dies, Jack falls desperately in love with a beautiful nurse. He learns with his last breath who she really is. Stu goes on to write Jack’s story and becomes a credible historian.
Not recommended for persons under the age of 18.
N. Beetham Stark
Nellie Beetham Stark was born November 20, 1933, in Norwich, Connecticut to Theodore and Dorothy Pendleton Beetham. She attended the Norwich Free Academy and later Connecticut College in New London, CT before graduating with a MA and a Ph.D. degree in Botany (Ecology) from Duke University.Stark worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a botanist for six years and then joined the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada where she worked on desert and forest ecology and later tropical nutrient cycling. She has consulted in many countries, working for some time in Russia, Australia and South America. She developed the theory that explains why tropical white sand soils cannot grow good food crops and described the decline processes of soils. She has also developed a science of surethology, or survival behavior which describes how humans must adapt to their environments if they hope to survive long term. She has 96 professional publications and has published in four languages.Her life long hobby has been English history, with emphasis on naval history. Her family came originally from Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic in the early 1900’s. Her grandfather was a whale ship captain for a time which spurred her interest in naval history. She also paints pictures of sailing ships which she has used as covers for her historical novels. She has built several scale models of sailing ships and does extensive research on ships and naval history, traveling to England once yearly.Stark was awarded the Connecticut Medal by Connecticut College in 1986 and the Distinguished Native Daughter Award for South Eastern Connecticut in 1985. She was named outstanding Forestry Professor three times by the students of the University of Montana, School of Forestry.Today she writes historical novels, mostly set in England. She has published some 21 novels in the past twenty years, mostly on the internet. She lives on a farm in Oregon and raises hay and cows.Stark's two most popular book series are:Early Irish-English History1. The Twins of Torsh, 44 A.D. to 90 A.D.1. Rolf "The Red" MacCanna, 796-8462. An Irishman's Revenge, 1066-11124. Brothers 4, 1180-12165. Edward's Right Hand, 1272-13076. We Three Kings, 1377-1422The Napoleonic Wars at Sea (Benjamin Rundel)1. Humble Launching - A Story of a Little Boy Growing Up at Sea, 17872. Midshipman Rundel - The Wandering Midshipman, 17953. Mediterranean Madness - The Luckless Leftenant Rundel, 17974. The Adventures of Leftenant Rundel, 1797-17995. Forever Leftenant Rundel, 1800-18036. Captain Rundel I – Trafalgar and Beyond, 1803-18067. Captain Rundel II – Give Me a Fair Wind, 1806-18098. Captain Rundel III – Bend Me a Sail, 1810-18139. Admiral Rundel – 1814-1846
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