Long John Silver
Björn Larsson
Long John Silver
Björn Larsson
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Description
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?
A bold act of imaginative piracy
It brilliantly conjures the wit and verve of swashbuckling classics
A brilliant swashbuckling sequel
It is to Larsson's credit that his version of this pirate is abounding in energy and complexity. Though he is a different man from that wrought by R.L.S., he is enthralling, charged with wit and wiles and a vivacity of speech that are entertaining and clever
Larsson's brilliantly-coloured tapestry is worth its weight in gunpowder
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.