Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pirates
Start :
19 Jul 2013 - 19:30
Type:
Talk
Location:
The Tall Ship at the Riverside Museum Glasgow - www.thetallship.com
Eric explores how Robert Louis Stevenson, while on rain drenched holiday in Braemar, drew a treasure map to amuse his step son from which his novel Treasure Island crystallised.
He based his immortal pirate characters Long John Silver and his band of old cut-throats from real pirate history - including Olivier ‘La Buse’ Levassiour of Calais and Captain James Macrae of Ayr.