Treasure Island

Informationen zum Autor Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894. Treasure Island is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time but is a wonderful adventure story that can be enjoyed at any age.When Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's treasure map in an old sailor's sea trunk the local doctor and squire take him with them to find the island and the treasure. But Long John Silver, with his missing leg and talking parrot, has his own ideas about who should find the treasure. Zusammenfassung Treasure Island is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time but is a wonderful adventure story that can be enjoyed at any age.When Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's treasure map in an old sailor's sea trunk the local doctor and squire take him with them to find the island and the treasure. But Long John Silver, with his missing leg and talking parrot, has his own ideas about who should find the treasure. Illustrated by H M Brock, with an Afterword by Sam Gilpin.

Product details

• Authors: Robert L. Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Assisted by: Sam Gilpin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781904633440
• ISBN: 978-1-904633-44-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 157 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Sea Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Pirates, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years, C 1700 To C 1800, Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary