| Title : | Treasure island | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Author | | Publisher: | Paperview Ltd | | Publication Date: | 2006 | | Other publisher: | The Irish Independent | | Pagination: | 193 p. | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-2-87427-216-5 | | General note: | Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! | | Class number: | 823.8 | | Abstract: | This is a classic tale of pirates and a boy's hunt for buried treasure. From the moment the story begins in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Cornwall in the 18th century, we are swept along on the high seas of adventure. The storyteller, young Jim Hawkins, chances on a map of a Treasure Island in the sea-chest of his mother's lodger, an old salt named Billy Bones, who dies after a visit from a menacing Blind Pew.
Before long Jim is aboard the schooner Hispaniola with his friends Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey, intent on claiming the pirate treasure. Little does Jim realise what lies ahead. He overhears one of the crew, Long John Silver, plotting mutiny. Later he is embroiled in a fierce battle and forges a friendship with marooned formwe pirate Benn Gunn. And all, it seems, for nothing: it transpires that the treasure has vanished from the spot marked on the map. Has the journey been in vain? Who are the heroes of the tale? Will Long John Silver be brought to justice? Can anyone be trusted? And what has Jim learned from his swashbuckling adventure?
Treasure Island is a tense, thrilling story that has captivated readers for generations. |
Treasure island [printed text] / Robert Louis Stevenson, Author . - [S.l.] : Paperview Ltd : [S.l.] : The Irish Independent, 2006 . - 193 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-2-87427-216-5 Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! | Class number: | 823.8 | | Abstract: | This is a classic tale of pirates and a boy's hunt for buried treasure. From the moment the story begins in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Cornwall in the 18th century, we are swept along on the high seas of adventure. The storyteller, young Jim Hawkins, chances on a map of a Treasure Island in the sea-chest of his mother's lodger, an old salt named Billy Bones, who dies after a visit from a menacing Blind Pew.
Before long Jim is aboard the schooner Hispaniola with his friends Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey, intent on claiming the pirate treasure. Little does Jim realise what lies ahead. He overhears one of the crew, Long John Silver, plotting mutiny. Later he is embroiled in a fierce battle and forges a friendship with marooned formwe pirate Benn Gunn. And all, it seems, for nothing: it transpires that the treasure has vanished from the spot marked on the map. Has the journey been in vain? Who are the heroes of the tale? Will Long John Silver be brought to justice? Can anyone be trusted? And what has Jim learned from his swashbuckling adventure?
Treasure Island is a tense, thrilling story that has captivated readers for generations. |
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