Roland Pietsch: 1 book
The Real Jim Hawkins
Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy.
This...
