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THE CAPTAIN AND THE NATURALIST BOOK


The Captain and The Naturalist is an epic\adventure\emotional sea faring novel written by author Jack Buie, that was released on June 1st, 2023. It has gained over 4,113 purchases on his website, in just two and a half months, JackBuiesBooks, link provided ( https://payhip.com/JackBuiesBooks), and is his most popular book to date. There have been many articles published regarding Mr. Buie's famous novel and has produced much praise, enlightenment, and intrigue in the literature world. It is being marked as a masterpiece in the last decade.

PLOT
The plot of the Captain and The Naturalist depicts the accurate portrayal and true story of Captain Finn Fitzroy, in the early to mid 19th century, from 1827 to 1865 and his quest sailing the South American coasts. It documents his life as a Captain, sailing on the HMS Beagle across the exotic continent of the "Hot South." It covers his life in its entirety, where we get many internal glimpses of what his childhood might have been like through monologues. Not only that, it dives in, to see him as a budding sea farer, scientist and explorer combing islands for historical specimen's, and his relationship with the famous naturalist, Charles Darwin, is seen as brilliant: leading one to triumph and one to disaster. The book begins in a chapter titled: Prelude. We come across Pringle Stokes, (1793-1828), sitting forlorn on a rocky outcrop on the shores of Port Famine, Patagonia. We are introduced to his troubles of being alone in such a desolate place, and that the character is angry with the Lords of England sending him across a broiling sea, to do their bidding. Eventually before his crew and officers are able to climb around to him, he shoots himself in the mouth with a Devonshire flintlock pistol, killing himself in graphic detail. Later, in chapter one, we are first introduced to the main character, Captain Finn Jared Fitzroy, at the age of twenty three, appearing in front of Admiral Otway and Captain Phillip Parker King in the Rio Ganges Company House. There the three men discuss Fitzroys childhood partly, his achievement's in schooling, and his orders to sail to Terria Del Fuego, charting and naming unknown islands. This is only the first of two voyages shown in the book. Soon, we are brought onto the HMS Beagle, where Fitzroy meets his officers and crew. The illustrious whaler, Mr. Sorrell and his knowledge on whales, officer Kempe, SkyRing, Mr. Bennet White, the carpenter May, MidShipman Bartholomew Sulivan, one of Fitzroy's good friends, Little King and many more. Fitzroy inspects the ship, captains cabin, powder magazine, and the masts and canons, before finding their yawl had been smashed in a storm, and poorly replaced with hemp rope, a thready thin type of rope used in the early 1800s. This annoys Fitzroy, he states that hemp rope is too fragile in a gale and would snap, so commands that the crewman responsible for this offence be flogged. Later on, they stumble upon two half naked sleeping Rio native women, in which was no aloud onboard such a vessel as The Beagle. Fitzroy orders the women to sent off by Mr. Bennet back to Ganges harbor, before commencing with a speech above the compass binnacle to his crew. During this speech, he sets new rules for the men of a 170, and claims and forbades gambling, sex, heavy drinking, and instill a dutiful attitude within the crew. This angers the crew at their new Captain who has replaced their previous Stokes. The book is split into eight large parts. The majority of Part One: Rio, entails Fitzroy, his officers, and crew scoping and naming the islands off Terria Del Fuego, where the make some encounter's with natives, and attempt to communicate with them by creating a dictionary of their unknown language. Assisted by the surgeon Bynoe, Fitzroy surveys the coast line of Patagonia, contriving sketches, naming islands, such as Port Otway, Mount Skyring, Kempe Bay, The Beagle Channel, which the men spend twenty minutes gazing at the beauty of its colorful trees, before climbing the rocky hill to build a marker for passing ships, leaving notes and watches, and even a few sparse ones for his three younger sisters, Meredith, Cathy, and Ruth. We also learn about some of Fitzroys earlier life within his thoughts, of his Father, Mother, and his home in Amptoun, England. Towards the end of part one, the men have a small skirmish with a band of Fuegian natives, in which they stole two of the Beagles whaleboats, and one of the crew men, Ethan. This brings us to the first scene of combat in Finn's life and he is heightened by the intensity of it. They pursue the natives along the shore, and kill five of them, taking twenty prisoner, with only losing two more men in the process. While captured, the natives escape twice, and this frustrates Captain Fitzroy and he takes his angry out on a crew men named Murray, who finds Fitzroy appalling with his acts of violence. After this they find four Fuegians, who they name Boat Memory, Fuegia Basket, York Minister, and Jemmy Button. They trade smally with the natives for various goods and converse in English and Yamana, their tongue, and begin to learn about each other. Fitzroy names one Boat Memory looking glass, in which he gifts the boy a looking glass, and is amazed at seeing his reflection for the first time. When they arrives back in Rio after their first voyage complete, they have a race between the Adventure, in which they win by two minutes, the first ship to beat the Ganges bay in ten years. Letters are delivered to the crew upon return and Fitzroy discovers his Father had died by liver infection, which hurts him deeply, for he was close to his Father. In Part Two, Fitzroy delivers the Fuegian natives back to England and enrolls them in Walathamstow, an education school for boys and girls with Master Jenkins, a famous teacher. Sadly, during the natives inspection, Boat Memory contracts small pox, and he is admitted to an asylum, where he later dies of the disease. It is not 1831, This is also where we meet the famous Charles Darwin for the first time and depicts the fateful meeting between Fitzroy and The Naturalist. We see Darwin has a tough relationship with his Father, Eramus, and a loving one with his sisters and Uncle Josiah, his Fathers brother. Darwin see's a postage of the second Voyage partaking by Captain Fitzroy and rushes to join as the ships naturalist. His Father refusing to make the payment for him to attend the trip, Darwin is forced to take a loan from Fitzroy and states he will pay him back once he collects the money from his findings after the voyage. Which he never does. The two strike up a powerful friendship and find they have much in common. They spend time in England together, Mr. Bennet and Finn showing Jemmy Button, Fuegia Basket, and York around the city and sights, which makes them curious to the ways of the world. They assemble a new crew, which introduces us to new characters, such as Augutus Earle, an American Painter, Usborne the cook, Stebbings a Danish banker, Bynoe a stratigrapher, Sorrell, Kempe, King, and nine other boys, and more. In Part Three Brazil to Part Five, that covers 660 pages, the Beagle sets off. During the majority of the novel from Chapter Thirteen to Chapter Twenty Six, Fitzroy sails across South America collecting scientific specimen's and exploring Chile, Peru, The Andes, The Galapagos Islands, Aranucia, Brazil, Australia, and more. This is the first time we see glimpses of Fitzroys "darkness, primal creature," as the author Mr. Buie has called it. Depression. Throughout the story, we see Fitzroy find Darwin annoying, arrogant, selfish, and egocentric, and their religious beliefs between transmutation and natural selection drive them apart. Mr. Buie takes careful note to assure the reader, that Fitzroy was the one who discovered these great historical findings and not Darwin. During this part, the reader is taken through many events, returning the Jemmy Button to Terria del Fuego, a mission is built, they gain more crew, including a boy named Hodges and his hound Honey, they have a battle in the Falkalands with Aruanician tribes men, resulting in twenty three of Fitzroys men being killed, four of the boys included. They hunt a whale, resulting in fourteen year old Berrys death, they collect fossils, gems, plants, and skeletons, coral, sea water, anything available. By the time the HMS Beagle returns to England at the end of Part Five, Darwin steals half the specimens which most of them were under Fitzroys named and claimed them as his own. The latter rest of the book, shows us going through Fitzroys aging life till his death, from 1837 to 1865. He meets his wife and marries Lorretta, his friendship with Darwin comes to a close in a heated argument at Fitzroys house, and he is kicked out of the Admiralty from complaints. He travels to Ireland in 1841 to find other work, after never being allowed to sail the seas again and return to Jemmy Button, and becomes acting Governor of New Zealand from 1843-1845. During his time there, he tries to unite the natives and clans to a peace of land, but the New Zealanders find Fitzroy and his family a nuisance, resulting in his forced resignation. Over the course of the last few chapters, we see Fitzroys depression take full hold, consuming him into darkness to where he could barely eat. His begins his Meterology Office in 1854, but its closed in 1859 by his old friend Sulivan due to "boring information of prediction weather." With all these terrible things occurring, his sadness deepens, Jemmy Button is killed, and Fitzroy is mocked by the Oxford Debaters, leading to the end of the novel, of him committing suicide by slitting his throat with a shaving razor.

About the Author


Jack Buie was born to a wonderful set of parents in the autumn of 1998 in the eastern Texas area. Ever since he was a boy he has been fascinated by literature, the world of books, and what secrets they might hold. He specializes in vast and extravagant novels ranging from horror, historical fiction, fantasy, romance, and many other various genres. He is most notably known for his witty, bold, beautiful, descriptive, detailed, almost dark gruesome writing style. His publisher Richard Calaister from Brown Publishing Co. in downtown Denver has described his writing as some of the most gorgeous lyrical prose in our age and one of the best novelists around. "His ability to tell a gripping swindle and keep it going is unbelievable. There unique, true on emotions among humans beings, and his character development is some of the best." He is a history nut, and enjoys studying time periods such as the 17th and 18th centuries, but loves to explore era's that he is unfamiliar with for his stories. He tends to navigate all genres of books and is planning to write a tale set in every century and every genre ever created.

In his young life Jack has written over ten books, mainly in historical fiction, horror, and fantasy. He has a Youtube channel called Mr. JackOLantern, where you can find the link on his website, where he has a 263 subscribers, and primarily uploads gaming, documentaries, short films, and Minecraft content. He regularly streams on YouNow with over a 3,000 person audience of his fans weekly and building up his book club on discord. As Mr. Buie once quoted: "It takes time to write a good story, but if you have the salt, vigor, and belief to do it, then it'll turn out evergreen." He currently is living with his girlfriend Ashley, his two pit-bull dogs Hela, Aspen, and his cat Sylvie in Colorado.

The Captain and The Naturalist is Being Marked as The Most Accurate Telling of the HMS Beagle Voyage Ever Written
By people who have bought and read his novel, it is being said as the most accurate depiction of the HMS Beagle story ever. The lyrical prose is beautiful and serene, lush colors of the South American landscape, and the dialogue is the closest an author has gotten too true 19th century dialect. It is claimed to be surpassing Patrick O Brain and James Reasoner. Not only that, this may also be, if so, the only story ever written about Captain Fitzroy. A man lost to time. Jack stated that it was one of the most hardest, emotional stories he had ever invested in before. He said he felt so close and attached to this man, that their similarities in personality were shockingly scary. The pacing is pristine. The discoveries are interesting. Jacks lyrical prose is off the charts, so wondrous and beautiful that the descriptions of South America were like one of Mr. Earles paintings. The historical accuracy is amazing, the little details, the characters all brought breath and brought to life in Jack's own hand really makes for a wrenching nautical adventure. It is probably not only the most accurate telling of the voyage around the world to date, but also a great reflection on the characters themselves. Even though, yes they were real people at one point, alive and walking, Jack gave each and every crew men, officer, boy, and protagonist and antagonist a personality, charm, wittiness, emotions. Some of the favorite parts are with the powder boys, Willy, Corky, King, Berry. Jack really took us back in time to what a functioning whale ship might have been like, including the raging politics, religious and scientific views in a 19th century society. It is genius. Some of the most beautiful writing, fans are instantly pulled in after chapter two. Not to mention the dialogue is some of the most accurate period piece speaking I've ever seen, better than period piece movies, it is a literal to a T on how they would have spoke, acted, thought, mannerisms, every little nook. The conversations between Darwin and Fitzroy are some of the most complex conversations to be written as well, a battle of two minds against nature, discussing animals, plants, gems, sand, ocean, air, and science and God. It may be too complex and it was astounding that a young twenty four year old man had these types of conversations whirling around in his head at night. No one will replace this book. It's quite simply a masterpiece.

Process of Writing it
The Author has said it was one of the more emotional, harder books to write on account of its authentic, sad, tragic nature. Some delicious characters such as the American Painter Augustus Earle, the cook Usborne, Sulivan, Bennet, WickHam, King, McCormick, Rosas's, even the little Danish banker stebbings, are so full of vigor and life I truly believe Jack is over five hundred years old, biding his time. Even the rituals and meanings and language of the Fuegians are accurate pretty closely, and by far my favorite native character was Jemmy Button. Jack portrayed Finn and his friendship so well it brought tears to my eye. This isn't an epic armada with seizing pirate galleons and blazing musket fire and ringing swords every three chapters like The Order. Albeit there is some great, riveting action, like the bloody Falklands beach battle, in my words amazing and graphic to the point of uncomfortable, the graphic nudity of the natives, and the whale chapter, most of the story is pretty tame, with extremely dark under tones. It's a story about an emotional journey of being human, and the struggles one man will go through to help other, even if no one see's him in the light he deserves. There is a sharp balance between light and dark in this book. There are comedic funny moments, few of course, but there great, namely the part with King mimicking the natives early in the book, the Galapagos chapter and Fitzs marriage. One extremely tasty detail that I picked up his Jack's use of foreshadowing, his use of beautiful phrases, and his use of pacing. Right after the prelude of Captain Pringle Stokes, there is evidently a twinge of melancholy between the lines on the pages, pretty much throughout the book. It's always there simmering, waiting. Ready to strike at any given moment. This is constant when we see little glimmers early on of Fitzroys depression, but its very subtle, until the creature from the darkness, this primal being snatches him off his feet. Excellent story telling. Later on in the book after the voyage is done with, we see descriptions of people becoming more vague to Fitzroy, the world around him starts to fade to black and white, rather than vivid colors. At the beginning, until the end of seafaring the globe to Capt. Finn is filled with lush plush colors, all the way down to the tiniest detail. But after, everything looses that. Simply, because his mind was failing him. His body was failing him. He didn't care about much anymore, so he never paid attention. The fact that Jack took the time to mesh that in there, is something an author has never done before. I commend him for that. It takes major gonads to write this book. I say this again. I want people to understand the complex mind it took to create something like this. I couldn't do it. My dad couldn't do it. My girlfriend couldn't do it. Hell my dog couldn't do it. But Jack did. He took the time to write out this epic story because in his words: "He just wanted too." The research into this, combing through real life journal entries was astounding to me, a true bond between people.

It Changed How we See Charles Darwin
The book, put simply, is the first ever to write the character Charles Darwin as a vilian and showing his true colors. It has started an uproar of fans agreeing and disagreeing on how the author, Mr. Buie, has written Darwins personality, leaving speculations of people growing angry with the author.

Quotes from The Captain and The Naturalist
"What if King, it was a filthy white deuced savage?" “Cappen Fiztoy never forget Jemmy Button! Cappen Fiztoy Jemmys friend! Jemmy Button an English gentleman like Cappen’ Fitzoy!” “You can only try sir. All of us make mistakes but do not let it shape you.” “You're a good man.” “You saved my life! Your a good man! There ain’t enough kindness in this world, that is certain, but you.” “Take care of my boy will you?” “Life is full of pain, but there is also love and beauty.” “By jove sir! Look at that dragon, fighting and the like!” “You have sad eyes mister, like you seen sad things.” “I promise you Captain Fitzroy, I’ll pass with full numbers just like you!” “I think the ship is in need of a new dog sir.” “Come on Finney, look at those rocks! The wildlife! The fossils! The plants! Has it been anything you’ve ever seen before?” “Your paintings are pristine and beautiful, Mr. Earle.” “If you follow me, I promise I will lead you to salvation!” “Mr. Fitzroy, you are a dime in a diamond sea.” “Pappy! Father look at me! Look at me!” “I hope you find peace within yourself.” “Your weather forecasts saved many sailors lives, Admiral.” “You are different. You see. You smile.” “White man good. Good.” “That’s right Jemmy. The stars help guide us.” “Ahoy astray Captain land Oh!” “You are only a Captain sir, we, you, all of us, are only human.” “Your a man I can follow anywhere, wherever you may go." “I love you my dear.”