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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Ralph Cosham. |
| Summary |
When US Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a 1919 Parliamentary transcript dealing with the near sinking of a British man-of-war called the King James, he at first gave it only passing thought-until he came across the words to a sailors' ballad entitled "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest," and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dead Man's Chest is a classic pirate yarn that begins with Long John Silver's escape from the merchantman Hispaniola and culminates with the American Revolution more than a decade later. It describes the unholy alliance between this softhearted cutthroat, his nephew David Noble, and Captain John Paul Jones, as they work together to retrieve a king's ransom of Spanish gold and jewels from Dead Man's chest-the remainder of the treasure described in Stevenson's novel and the inspiration for the sailor's ballad of the same name. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Pirates -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Cosham, Ralph. Narrator.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Treasure Island.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982480813 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982480815 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10028291 |
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