In the dull town of Binchester, the estate agent’s idle son Edward Tredgold finds diversion in a retired sea captain, his pretty niece and Mr. Chalk, a respectable citizen who longs for adventure. When a chart of buried treasure surfaces, Chalk and his friends fit out an expedition, and an unreliable old salt named Captain Brisket begins to spin his yarns.
Jacobs’s dry seafaring humour stretched to novel length, with his usual gallery of schemers and henpecked men. Download the free EPUB.