place
Tortuga
also: Insel Tortuga
Caribbean island off Hispaniola, a notorious seventeenth-century buccaneer stronghold; a setting for the boy's pirate fantasies.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §475 Tortuga
The Caribbean island that was a notorious seventeenth-century buccaneer stronghold; a setting for the boy's pirate fantasies.