A shark’s eye! Here it is for all to see. I’ve had rather a lot of requests for a good close up of this antique curio. So here it is: the lens from the eye of a shark, caught by my grandfather Henry Leighton in the 1930s around Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean.
It’s a remarkable story and I am going to have to think carefully about how it could be used in a book. It’s too good to just let go of. I’ve tried before… but become over-critical. So when I get some spare time…
It’s rather appropriate, perhaps, that I told and illustrated this story in Scotland a few weeks ago. The legend of Benito Bonito is thought to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island!
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