In 1744 Private Gill Davis of the Royal Marines lands on the Island of Silver-Store off the Mosquito Coast, where a small English colony is attacked by pirates and carried off upriver. This edition gives Dickens’s chapters of the 1857 Christmas story he wrote with Wilkie Collins, a tale coloured by British anger at the Indian Mutiny and its attitudes to race.
A lesser-known Dickens adventure, interesting for its historical moment as much as its story. Download the free EPUB.