Jack Tier (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Or, The Florida Reef

by James Fenimore Cooper

Overview

 In Jack Tier, Cooper crafts a sea-faring adventure set just after the end of the 1846 Mexican War, when peace had only very recently been settled. The novel was originally serialized in Graham’s Magazine, and tells a fresh, rollicking story about the fluidity of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441378
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	517
Sales rank:	923,625
File size:	508 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) is best known for his masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans. A prolific and popular American writer, Cooper wrote fiction, non-fiction, and even tried his hand at the supernatural. He wrote many stories about the sea as well as the historical novels of his series Leatherstocking Tales.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)