Poison Island
1907
Fourteen-year-old Harry Brooks arrives at Mr. Stimcoe's Academy expecting a classical education. What he finds is a drunkard master, a crumbling institution, and a boy entirely adrift, until Captain Coffin staggers into his life. The old sea captain claims a map to a fortune in gold, hidden on a poison-struck island off the Honduras coast. He speaks of it feverishly, between bottles, and Harry must decide whether to believe a man the world has already dismissed. But the map is real, and so is the poison, and somewhere in the Caribbean lies a treasure that might save one of them or destroy them both. Quiller-Couch writes in the shadow of Stevenson, but this is his own dark creature, part adventure, part meditation on the lies we tell ourselves, and on the dangerous sweetness of believing in something larger than a lonely English schoolboy's life.
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