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Product details
- ISBN 9781860465383
- Weight: 277g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The true and eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind.
What ever happened to Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous and yet attractively subversive pirate whose exploits made him the anti-hero of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? He lived out his twilight years on Madagascar, rich, one-legged and attended by a handful of devoted slaves whose freedom he had purchased in the West Indies by inciting them to rebellion.
That he had a price on his head and the Navy out looking to bring him to justice bothered him less than the thought of posthumous obscurity. So he set down these memoirs to give his side of the story.
Björn Larsson, a Swedish academic steeped in British eighteenth-century sea-lore, was born in 1953. He has lived in the United States and France, and also for six years aboard his yacht Rustica. He has written a previous novel with a maritime setting, The Celtic Ring. Long John Silver has been translated into twelve languages.
