Long John Silver
Björn Larsson
  • Published: 15 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9781860465383
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99

Long John Silver

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'Larsson has created a vast, gross and compelling tale of one of literature's most intriguing antiheroes' - Daily Express

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.

  • Published: 15 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9781860465383
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Björn Larsson

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 is the author of two maritime novels, The Celtic Ring and Long John Silver, which has been translated into twelve languages.

Praise for Long John Silver

A bold act of imaginative piracy

Robert Nye, The Times

It brilliantly conjures the wit and verve of swashbuckling classics

Miranda France, Daily Telegraph

A brilliant swashbuckling sequel

David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

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

Scotland on Sunday

Larsson's brilliantly-coloured tapestry is worth its weight in gunpowder

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