Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardcover

Rankin, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057113808X ISBN 13: 9780571138081

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1987

Synopsis

A meticulous travelogue following in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson in his travels from Edinburgh to the South Seas.

About this title

From the Publisher:

“Mr Rankin’s scholarship is meticulous and his local gossip fascinating” Evening Standard

About the Author:

Nicholas Rankin worked 20 years for BBC World Service, winning two UN awards and ending up as Chief Producer. His previous books include biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson and the war-correspondent George Steer, Churchill's Wizards, a study of camouflage, deception and black propaganda in both world wars, and Ian Fleming's Commandos, the history of a WW2 naval intelligence unit. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London and Kent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 057113808X
• ISBN 13: 9780571138081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384