The buccaneers

Resource Information

The work The buccaneers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The buccaneers

Statement of responsibility

Iain Lawrence

Creator

• Lawrence, Iain, 1955-

Subject

• Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
• Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction
• Ships -- Fiction
• Pirates -- Juvenile fiction
• Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction
• Pirates -- Fiction
• Caribbean Area -- Fiction
• Ships -- Juvenile fiction
• Seafaring life -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. There's pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook you alive, says Mr. Spencer to his son. These words will haunt 17-year-old John Spencer as he embarks on his first voyage to foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his Dragon crew set off from London for waters few of them have sailed. So when they come upon a lifeboat adrift at sea, some are wary of the sailor aboard. His name is Horn, and something about his story doesn't quite make sense. Still, John respects the stranger's awe-inspiring seamanship. With Horn on deck, both John and the ship's captain believe the Dragon is in the best of hands. But is Horn to be trusted? Is he a good-luck charm as he claims to be? The answers become muddled as the Dragon encounters a very real -- and dangerous -- pirate ship. And soon after, John is stranded on an island reputed to conceal buried treasure. An island teeming with buccaneers!

Cataloging source

OQX

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.L43545

LC item number

Bu 2001

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries