The modern conception of the seafaring pirate originates with two fictional characters: Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883), who had a peg-leg and a parrot perched on his shoulder, and Captain Hook from J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1911), who has had a metal hook in place of his right hand. Peter Coffin's pop-culture pirate is endowed with multiples of these attributes—two parrots, two hooks for hands, and two peg-legs—as well as two eye patches. He embodies a modern antihero, defying authority, living apart from society, and freely roaming the world. Indestructible and steadfast, this blind and injured buccaneer is as enduring as the pirate icon itself.