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Treasure Island
Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author)
ISBN: 1472921941     ISBN-13: 9781472921949
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical Press
OUR PRICE:   $12.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Sea Stories
Dewey: 823.8
Lexile Measure: 970
Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

When old drunken sailor Billy Bones dies at the Admiral Benbow Inn, the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, finds a map among the seaman's possessions. The local physician, Doctor Livesey, and the squire, Trelawney, believe the map is of an island where the infamous pirate Captain Flint buried his treasure. They decide to buy a ship to go find it, and Jim decides to join the crew as cabin boy.

They meet the skeptical Captain Smollett and Long John Silver, a one-legged cook with a parrot. Jim soon discovers that Silver is just one of several crewmen who was also part of Captain Flint's crew and that they're planning a mutiny. After they reach the island and the pirates rise up, Jim is separated from the others loyal to Captain Smollett. Wandering around, he learns that they are not alone on the island after all, and that perhaps the treasure has already been found.

Treasure Island has been entertaining readers of all ages for 130 years and is just as witty and as thrilling today as it was when it was first published. This special edition includes the much-loved original text along with new maps and an exclusive foreword.

Contributor Bio(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis: - Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.