Includes character guide, true-or-false pirate
statements, quizzes, author info, and seafaring vocabulary
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to
Captain Flint's treasure, he and Squire Trelawney set sail on the Hispaniola to
search for the gold. Little do they know that among their crew is the dastardly
pirate Long John Silver. Silver has a devious plan to keep the gold all to
himself. Can brave Jim outwit the most infamous pirate ever to sail the high
seas? Will he escape from Treasure Island alive?
About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850.
The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family
profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University.
Stevenson reacted forcibly against the
Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents,
but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with
evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties
