A [b:Treasure Island|295|Treasure Island|Robert Louis Stevenson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485248909s/295.jpg|3077988] ripoff, but instead of an island we land in a lost medieval settlement in south america. A fairly fun adventure story with pirates before the girl from 'Brave' shows up, but she's Welsh not Scottish.
Moments of humour, moments of surprising darkness but overall just a fun adventure story. Its set in 1826 but unfortunately from a social view feels like it was written then, rather than 1950.

While women fair moderately well, the book insists pointlessly on showing that the medieval europeans enslaved the local south americans and never suggests this as anything but a positive. The poor are shown to be little above the slaves and while it very occasionally makes a jab against the romanticizing of medieval life, its nowhere near as acerbic as the likes of a [b:Connecticut Yankee|162898|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348239402s/162898.jpg|2621763]. The overall attitude very much pro-white and pro-rich.

On a sidenote i think the Long-John Silver-esque character is gay, just a thought but it added a little extra.
I probably should deduct a star due to its racism but it has likable characters and is i think still worth a 3, just. ( )