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Treasure Island After the death of a brutish guest at his family's inn, young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map that leads him and some local adventurers to an island filled with danger and intrigue. Within hours of sighting the island, the crew, led by the villainous Long John Silver, reveals itself as a band of pirates desperate to steal the treasure for themselves. Torn between his desire for adventure and ... Full description
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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 onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.
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TREASURE ISLAND (Puffin Classics, Essential Collection)
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Puffin Books, New York, NY, 2003
ISBN 10: 0142500917
ISBN 13: 9780142500910
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Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Puffin Books, 3rd Printing. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to leading edges, and faint creasing to back. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest/Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!". 1883 classic tale of buccaneers & hidden treasure from Scottish novelist, poet, writer & traveller Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) who also gave us Kidnapped, and, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. Gripping adventure narrated by young Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper's son. Jim, having chanced upon a treasure map, meets up with Long John Silver and his band of pirates. 298 pgs, 34 chapters, w/the famous treasure map, in 6 parts: Part I, The Old Buccaneer; II, The Sea Cook; III, My Shore Adventure; IV, The Stockade; V, My Sea Adventure; and VI, Captain Silver. Seller Inventory # 020034