TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ruel Perley
AU  - Gowing,Louis D.
TI  - Jack Harvey's Adventures; or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates
AV  - PZ 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Pirates -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Oyster fisheries -- Juvenile fiction
N1  - Release date is 2012-08-02; Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Jack Harvey's Adventures; or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates" by Ruel Perley Smith is a fictional novel written in the early 20th century. This story focuses on the adventures of Jack Harvey, a boy who finds himself drawn into a series of thrilling escapades after he opts to stay in Baltimore while his parents travel to Europe. As he wanders the waterfront, he encounters dubious characters and becomes embroiled in a plot involving oyster pirates aboard a sneaky vessel.  The opening of the narrative introduces Jack Harvey as he bids farewell to his parents at the pier. Jack, feeling a sense of freedom and adventure, inadvertently meets a fellow named Artie Jenkins, who lures him aboard a fishing schooner under false pretenses. After engaging in a moment of heroics by saving a boat from drifting away, Jack is befriended by Jenkins, who has ulterior motives. As the situation escalates, Jack unwittingly signs on to a crew, leading to a tumultuous adventure filled with unexpected challenges as he navigates life aboard the bug-eye, Z. B. Brandt, encountering pirates, betrayal, and danger. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40396
ER  -