We all remember the story of "Treasure Island" and Long John Silver; well, this is a rollicking pirate tale of the rough life of murders and thieves that banded together to sail the sea and plunder and kill.
The story is told by Long John as he is being brought back to England to be hanged. It begins with "Silver" as a boy, a thief and a pick pocket who is taken to sea by Black John the pirate where he learns the trade. He meets Billy Bones, Pew, Ben Gunn, the parrot Flint and other characters and tells the story of how over the years he plans to take over Black John’s Ship and find the "greatest treasure". It is a gory story and a little over long but I kept holding out hope that it would tie into the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. There are a couple of esoteric puzzles that I could not figure out. A fair yarn.
The story is told by Long John as he is being brought back to England to be hanged. It begins with "Silver" as a boy, a thief and a pick pocket who is taken to sea by Black John the pirate where he learns the trade. He meets Billy Bones, Pew, Ben Gunn, the parrot Flint and other characters and tells the story of how over the years he plans to take over Black John’s Ship and find the "greatest treasure". It is a gory story and a little over long but I kept holding out hope that it would tie into the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. There are a couple of esoteric puzzles that I could not figure out. A fair yarn.
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