An abridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson's best-loved classic Treasure Island. When Jim Hawkins sets off as a cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he looks forward to searching for buried treasure. But he doesn't know what else awaits him -- spine chilling adventure on Treasure Island, and murderous struggles with Long John Silver and his cut-throat band of pirates.
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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
Robert Westall was born October 1929, in Tynemouth, England. His first book, The Machine Gunners, was published in 1975, for which he won the Carnegie Medal. Amongst many more prizes and accolades, he won the Carnegie for the second time in 1980, with The Scarecrows. He died in 1993.
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