`We want that treasure, and we'll have it!'
Jim Hawkins has discovered a terrible plot. Mutiny is in the air on board the Hispaniola, and the notorious pirate Long John Silver is to blame. Everyone is on the hunt for the cursed gold buried on Treasure Island . . .
Treasure Island is a rip-roaring pirate adventure story that has never been out of print since it was first published more than a hundred years ago.
`a breathless journey . . . a unique work of genius' - Eoin Colfer
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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