Half a pirate
Patrick O’Brian, 22 January 1987
Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates
by Robert Ritchie.
Harvard, 306 pp., £16.95, November 1986,0 674 09501 4 Show More
by Robert Ritchie.
Harvard, 306 pp., £16.95, November 1986,
Richard Knight’s Treasure! The True Story of his Extraordinary Quest for Captain Kidd’s Cache
by Glenys Roberts.
Viking, 198 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 670 80761 3 Show More
by Glenys Roberts.
Viking, 198 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
“... it. Some indeed find it, and the latest of these is Richard Knight, whose adventures are told by Glenys Roberts. It appears that Mr Knight, putting all the clues together, found three of the Captain’s buried chests on a small island off the coast of Vietnam. There was more to be found, but for the time being he took these chests (full of gold and ... ”
