When I was a kid, I would have told you Robert Louis Stevenson was one of my favorite authors. Idk, I guess I read A Child's Garden of Verses and Treasure Island? But I didn't know anything about him, really. Reading this, I learned that he was Scottish. This is a very Scottish book, and I was very thankful for the glossary. 😂 Like a Scottish Dickens. Poor young hopeful boy, whisked into a whirlwind of danger and a world of dubious characters. A good old fashioned adventure story.