User blog comment:Captain Dashing/My Glorious Return and Your Summer Reading/@comment-1984959-20120703042713/@comment-3574741-20120703162213

Well, to be honest, I kinda knew that we wouldn't get too much from the book aside from Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth

Don't forget zombies! Although in the book they are mentioned as walking corpses or something like that. Also, although it was not in OST (SPOILER), Elizabeth swinging the dress when she was on the Edinburgh Trader resembled Shandy swinging the corpse of Hurwood so he could signal his uncle. This made Powers if his book was the inspiration of Elizabeth's sneaky act.