Free man you will always cherish the sea

Learning that his protégé, Jim Hawkins, invested his treasure share in the slave trade and gained notoriety by recounting his adventures, Long John Silver, retired to a fortress of Madagascar, took the pen to bring him to a saving decision consciousness.

For this, he began to recount his life, from his beginnings quartermaster whose loyalty has cracked the appalling spectacle of the slave trade, bringing up the mutiny and the entry into piracy.

Bjorn Larson makes the most of the hollows left by Robert L. Stevenson "Treasure Island": the loss of a leg, the nickname Barbecue, the terrible killer reputation, the mastery of Latin and marriage with a black woman to compose imaginary odyssey of a man worn by the revolt and its thirst for freedom inextinctible ..

At the heart of his story, this chilling observation: piracy is a direct result of the triangular trade. Unspeakable sanitary conditions prevailing on board slave ships, were training as many deaths among sailors than among unhappy chained in the hold, pushing each other to mutiny. Crime that the East India Company and the British Crown could not forgive, tirelessly chasing the rebels on all seas for hanging on gallows in London. Stateless and constantly on the run, there remained in these desperate sailors the way to piracy to survive.

The author reveals moments of pure magic and literary reflection on human destiny with a particularly keen sense of dignity.

Do not wait: cast off and hoist the mainsail. Oh and hoists Ho and a bottle of rum ...

NB: essential complement "The last adventure of Long John Silver" by the same author, in which - in the appendix - this one exposes his inspiration