Jack Owen

Yarns from an Old Salt (Essays, Anecdotes and Short Stories, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

British writer Jack Owen served in the Royal Navy as a boy. Then wised up. He evolved into a local newspaper reporter and feed stop-press snippets to national media in England.

Part of that beat ranged from Broadmoor Institute for the Criminally Insane to Sandhurst Military Academy. Difficult to separate, sometimes. Then he spent half a century covering, and uncovering, crime and society in the Palm Beaches as a staff writer and freelance journalist. He also became an antiquarian book dealer where he found time to write two books about the rich little community of Palm Beach.

His 'Palm Beach Scandals - An Intimate Guide' debuted on 'The Joan River's Show'. He has several other books, mostly maritime, in print and pad format. This, a sample collection of essays, anecdotes and short stories, spreads a smorgasbord of snippets culled from his experiences.

More than one episode reflects his early years attending multiple schools. Some of those departures were caused by the Blitz, others by self-inflicted academic bombs. In that era Capt. W.E. Johns and his fictional RAF fighter pilot James 'Biggles' Bigglesworth, and C. S. Forester's sailing seafarer Horatio Hornblower, R. N. were 'approved' parental heroes to be read.

But, Richmal Crompton's eleven year old scalawag William Brown, together with his gang of schoolboy pirates, detectives and spies, were likely contenders as mentors.

Cats, dogs, grannies and grandpas along with crooks, cops, crazies and rum rats spice the stories presented. They may not bump anyone off the 'Top Ten' lists, but they are definitely good for beach, airport or doctor's waiting room reading.

They're as entertaining and honest as fisherman's yarns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Old Book Shop Publication
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386185376
• Artikelnr.: 53868560

Autorenporträt

British journalist Jack Owen wrote for local, national and international publications before becoming the author of two non-fiction books about Palm Beach, and a handful of factional yarns based on historical - mostly nautical - events. His books, anthologies, articles and short-stories are available online in "E and Tree" versions. In the course of seeking information for stories about everything from Mushroom Growing to Murder, the author has sailed oceans, climbed mountains and bent the ear of many bartenders. Cops and crooks have shoved guns in his face, society dames have hired him to ghost-write their life-stories. Editors have hired, fired and hired him again. Owen has written for publications as diverse as the National Enquirer to the National Fisherman and Sports Digest to Modern Maturity, while playing many roles Upstairs and Downstairs to get the story. And sometimes his story, became part of, history. In a parallel life, sometimes serendipitously merging one with the other, he has maintained a second love and livelihood in antiquarian and contemporary books. As an active bookseller and appraiser in the late 1970's, he has been a charter member, officer and former president of the FABA (Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association). He has also messed about in boats from rag-bags to stink-pots in many roles. Aaarghhhh!