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How much of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book, Treasure Island, was pure fiction? In Sailing by Starlight, Swiss novelist Alex Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a ship in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's "treasure island" exists, albeit in a place quite different from the imaginings of generations of treasure-hunters....
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"Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, he follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Gilberts, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another as he confronts his newfound sobriety. Somewhere en route from the shark-infested waters of Fakarava to the remote islands of Kiribati, he gradually awakens to the beauty of life, managing an honest look at addiction and human...
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