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Treasure Island Revisited

by (author) Fitzgerald Jack

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Aug 2005
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894294898
    Publish Date
    Aug 2005
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Treasure Island Revisited is based on the true Newfoundland adventure story, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's classic book Treasure Island. It tells the story of the real Long John Silver, Captain John Keating of St. John's, and how he obtained the map to the lost treasure of Lima, a treasure that today is estimated to be worth in excess of one hundred million dollars.

About the author

Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John's, Newfoundland. During his career he has been a journalist, a feature writer and political columnist with the St. John's Daily News; a reporter and public affairs writer with CJON and VOCM News Services; editor of the Newfoundland Herald and the Newfoundland Chronicle. During the last years of the Smallwood administration he was assistant director of Public Relations with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also worked as Assistance Officer with the Department of Social Services. Jack Fitzgerald also hosted a regular radio program featuring off-beat Newfoundland stories on radio station VOFM. .

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