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When Jim Hawkins discovers a map in an old sea chest, he little guesses of the danger and excitement which lie ahead. He sets sail for Treasure Island in search of treasure. A terrifically exciting tale of a dead man’s map, mutinous pirates, skulduggery and buried treasure.
From Michael Morpurgo: "This was the first real book I read for myself. I lived this book as I read it."
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Treasure Island Synopsis
Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish this
beautiful edition of the classic tale, Treasure Island.
Jim Hawkins is the son of the innkeepers of the Admiral Benbow
near Devon and becomes fascinated by a mysterious lodger, the old
seaman Billy Bones.
It soon becomes apparent to Jim that Billy Bones is in hiding
from a man with one wooden leg and he is also in possession of a
much sought after pirate's treasure chest.
When Billy Bones suddenly drops dead, Jim flees, taking with him
an oilskin packet from within the chest. It turns out that Jim
has taken a map detailing the whereabouts of Captain Flint's treasure.
A swash-buckling adventure aboard the Hispaniola ensues as Jim
attempts to track down the treasure with the help of a one-legged
sea cook Long John Silver, Captain Alexander Smollett, Squire Trelawney
and Dr. Livesey among others.
But all is not as it seems. Is Long John Silver really trustworthy?
After all Bones did warn him of a man with one leg...
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About This Edition
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9781407143637 |
| Publication date: |
7th November 2013 |
| Author: |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Scholastic |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
281 pages |
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Scholastic Classics |
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About Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. From the beginning he was sickly. Through much of his childhood he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as Cummy in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms, and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval. Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of his family's middle-class values, but that rebellion would come only after he entered Edinburgh University.
The juvenilia that survives from his childhood shows an observer who was already sensitive to religious issues and Scottish history. Not surprisingly, the boy who listened to Cummy's religious tales first tried his hand at retelling Bible stories: "A History of Moses" was followed by "The Book of Joseph." When Stevenson was sixteen his family published a pamphlet he had written entitled The Pentland Rising, a recounting of the murder of Nonconformist Scots Presbyterians who rebelled against their royalist persecutors.
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