Treasure Island
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a classic adventure novel published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform on August 18, 2016. This edition features 172 pages and is presented in English. The story begins with Jim Hawkins, who encounters an old sailor named Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow Inn. As Jim becomes embroiled in a quest for buried pirate treasure, he discovers a map that leads to an island where the notorious Captain Flint hid his riches.
Readers will find a rich narrative filled with iconic characters such as Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and Ben Gunn, all of whom have become staples in literature. The book explores themes of adventure and the perilous world of pirates, complete with treasure maps and the dangers they entail. This edition invites readers to experience the thrilling journey that has inspired countless adaptations and remains a significant work in the action and adventure genre.
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Summary:
An old sailor, calling himself “the captain”-real name “Billy” Bones-comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west English coast during the mid-1700s, paying the innkeeper’s son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for a one-legged “seafaring man.”
A seaman with intact legs shows up, frightening Billy-who drinks far too much rum-into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from yet another man, Billy has another stroke and dies; Jim and his mother (his father has also died just a few days before) unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map.
The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where a deceased pirate-Captain Flint-buried a vast treasure. The district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ship’s doctor and Jim as cabin boy.
No matter how was on real life, Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, was able to show a romantic picture of pirates’ world with now iconic elements like islands with treasures, maps with “x”‘s, fearful papers with a black spot, peglegs, eye patches, parrots on shoulders, but above all, he had no doubt to show how dangerous and murderous can be real pirates.
Characters like Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Ben Gunn, Captain Smollett and of course, Long John Silver from this book have become iconic in the universe of literature. Even they have been so admired that other authors couldn’t resist to make homages/mentions of them on their own novels, such examples like on Peter Pan.
The most popular pirate story ever written in English.
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There have been over 50 movie and TV versions made based on this iconic novel.
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