STEP INTO THE TIME FUNNEL
Enter a World of Adventure, History & Legend
The pirate king from Treasure Island never got to tell his side of the story. David K. Bryant went back and found it Jamaica, 1749, a kidnapping, an epidemic, and the true, untold origin of Captain Flint.
Historical Adventures
Real ports, real ships, real history Jamaica in 1749, Savannah in 1754, and the Caribbean shipping lanes in between.
Immersive Storytelling
Fifty-eight chapters of kidnapping, mutiny, epidemic, and betrayal, built around characters you already know from Treasure Island.
Authentic Research
Real historical figures, Governor Edward Trelawny, Queen Nanny, Catherine Penny appear alongside the fiction, researched and portrayed with care.
Tread Carefully on the Sea
His greatest battle wasn’t only against the Empire, it was against betrayal, mutiny, disease, and the consequences of his own choices.
- The untold backstory of Captain Flint, the pirate king from Treasure Island
- Real historical figures woven into a fictional 1749 Jamaica
- A sequel-in-reverse the story that sets up the opening pages of Treasure Island itself
Meet David K. Bryant
David spent his career as a journalist and in public relations, running a district newspaper office, helping bring professional PR into the British police service, and working on government communications in the UK before eventually settling in New South Wales, Australia. None of that fully explains why, at seven years old, he read Treasure Island so hard he walked into a tree. But it might explain why, decades later, he went back and wrote the story Treasure Island left out: what really happened to Captain Flint.
Whether you grew up on Robert Louis Stevenson or you're discovering Captain Flint for the first time, David's novels are built to pull you into the century itself, researched closely enough to trust, written loosely enough to enjoy.
Featured Historical Eras
Step into the past with David K. Bryant's captivating historical collection. Each book is deeply researched and crafted to transport you directly among the events and characters that shaped our world.
Beyond the Last Hill
A government cover-up. A line between deceit and reality that keeps getting harder to find. Dan and Sally aren't looking for trouble, but Beyond the Last Hill, based on true events, finds them anyway.
The Dust of Cannae
216 BC. The biggest army Rome ever raised marches into the deadliest single day of battle in the ancient world. Seven lives are about to be upturned by it.
Tread Carefully on the Sea
Jamaica, 1749. A kidnapping, a ransom, an epidemic, and the real, untold story of the pirate king from Treasure Island.
Step Into History. Experience the Adventure.
Three centuries, one storyteller. From the pirate-infested Caribbean of 1749 to the Roman legions at Cannae in 216 BC, every book is built on history that actually happened, and the people it happened to.
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Three centuries, one storyteller. From the pirate-infested Caribbean of 1749 to the Roman legions at Cannae in 216 BC, every book is built on history that actually happened, and the people it happened to.
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Three books, three eras, one thread running through all of them: real history, and the people who lived through it. Start wherever the century calls to you.
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It started before David ever planned to write a novel. He read Treasure Island as a boy and became fixated on Captain Flint, the pirate king who's dead before the book even begins, known only through other characters' memories. David wanted to know who Flint really was. Tread Carefully on the Sea is the answer: built around real historical figures Governor Edward Trelawny, Queen Nanny, Catherine Penny researched and written with the respect real history deserves, even inside a work of fiction.
Flint's ending in Tread Carefully on the Sea leaves more than one door open a medallion that vanishes, a treasure map that changes hands, a death that's reported rather than shown. Whether Flint's story continues depends on where readers want to go next. Join the reader list below and you'll be the first to know.
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