Long John Silver by Bjö Larsson
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What was the real history of Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous, and yet strangely likable pirate whose exploits made him the antihero 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. He had a price on his head, the Royal Navy was out to bring him to justice, but it was posthumous obscurity he feared. So he set down his memoirs, "The true and eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind". Now published in paperback alongside Harvill's edition of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
