When young Jim Hawkins finds an old map showing the location of a hoard of buried treasure, he joins the crew of the Hispaniola who set sail to find it. But they soon have a mutiny on their hands, led by the duplicitous pirate Long John Silver. As the quest turns murderous, Jim's bravery is put to the test, and he discovers much about friendship, loyalty and betrayal on this daring voyage.
This is one of, if not the greatest adventure stories ever written. The story was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks before being published in 1883.
Its intriguing and exciting from the outset when Billy Bones arrives at the Admiral Benbow Inn. From here we are introduced to characters and language that have become part of our everyday life, Blind Pew, Ben Gunn ,Long John Silver and
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-
Yo,ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
There seems to have been several hundred film and television adaptations of this story of which I remember a few but none I've seen have done justice to this tale. Wonderful
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