Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy

by Roland Pietsch

Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy.

This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848320361
• ISBN13: 9781848320369
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"