Posted by Jock on July 15, 2010 at 02:28:37 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: AR's optimism - in defence of The Big Six posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 14, 2010 at 01:28:11:
...Ransome very deliberately and carefully "knocks off" "Treasure Island".
Indeed, although as in the case of many of AR's creations, there are other sources / inspirations
such as E F Knight's account of a real voyage in search of treasure, Cruise of the Alerte.