Island of Thieves
By: by Josh Lacey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780547763279
Subjects: Buried treasure; Uncles; Adventure and adventurers; Juvenile Fiction; Fiction; Peru; Islands; Juvenile fiction; Mystery and detective stories
Description: Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.