Sunday, January 3, 2010

Under the Jolly Roger

Under the Jolly Roger
: being an account of the further nautical adventures of Jacky Faber
/ L.A. Meyer ; read by Katherine Kellgren. – Roseland : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., p2008.
12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subtitle on container insert cover.
Unabridged
Compact disc
Directed by Charles de Montebello
Sequel to: The Curse of the Blue Tattoo
(Bloody Jack adventure; 3)
ISBN: 9781593161415

1. Friendship – Fiction. 2. Great Britain. Navy – Fiction. 3. Orphans – Fiction. 4. Pirates – Fiction. 5. Privateers – Fiction. 6. Seafaring life – Fiction. 7. Sex role – Fiction.

Arriving back in London, decked out as a fine lady Jacky goes to call on her sweetheart Jaimy. She receives a rude welcome from his mother, who’s read about her in a book written by Amy Trevelyne, her friend from Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. It’s titled Bloody Jack. Hearing that Jamie is to attend a race, Jacky disguises herself as a jockey to get into the track. Unfortunately, being disguised as a man, she’s taken by a press gang, and soon finds herself back in the Royal Navy and on blockade duty off the coast of France. Worse than that, the Wolverine is a hell ship governed by a vicious and dishonest captain, who has dishonorable designs on Midshipman Faber.

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