Swashbuckling excitement abounds in Treasure Island, the famous tale of the mutiny of the fearsome Long John Silver and the race for buried treasure, as seen through the eyes of the cabin boy Jim Hawkins. Kidnapped tells the thrilling story of David Balfour. Orphaned and betrayed by his uncle, Balfour is taken prisoner and finds himself en route to a life of slavery in the New World until a storm blows the ship aground in the Scottish Highlands and he begins his action-packed journey south to find his home and reclaim his fortunes.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. In 1867 he entered Edinburgh University to study engineering but subsequently switched to law. Stevenson liked to travel and wrote many essays and short stories for magazines about these travels. Treasure Island was published in 1883 and was followed by Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
