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Jack at Sea, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W.B. Overend
Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23375]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Jack at Sea; or, All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy, by George Manville Fenn.
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We do seem to have rather a problem with this book, because the copy we worked from had pages 15 and 16 missing (sheet was missing) and also the bottom half of pages 283 and 284 has been torn out. Eventually, when I can see another copy of the book I will be able to rectify this, but at the moment there does not seem to be a copy in sight: it doesn't even seem to be listed in the British Library Catalogue.
Jack is an academic and clever boy, who does not do much in the way of sport and exercise. This worries his father who talks about it to the local doctor. They decide that Jack has to be forced into the world most of us inhabit, but the way they do it was surely a bit of an over-kill, for Sir John (the father, who is a baronet), buys a yacht capable of sailing round the world, and they all set