On Stranger Tides

On Strange Shores is an adventure novel in the historical fantasy genre. In 2011, it was adapted into the worldwide blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The novel’s events take place in the early 18th century—the Golden Age of Pirates. The French puppet master John Shandanyac sails to Jamaica to meet his uncle, Sebastian. On board he meets an Englishwoman, Elizabeth, and her father—a professor absorbed in the study of black magic. But the peaceful voyage is interrupted—pirates attack the ship. Now John must rescue the beautiful Elizabeth and stand up to the crazed professor and to none other than the pirate Blackbeard…