Treasure Island

A mysterious seaman hides at a country inn; cut-throats raid a sleepy English
village; suddenly, young Jim Hawkins becomes the owner of a map leading to a
lost tropical island and a fortune in stolen gold. Three adventures — Jim,
Squire Trelawney, and Dr. Livesey — set out to find the treasure. — But they
trust the one they should most fear, Long John Silver. Charming, brave
ruthless, murderous, Silver fills the squire's ship with pirates. And on the
desolate, fever-infested island, the quest for gold becomes a deadly war of
hide and seek. Desperate defenders against merciless killers battling over a
cursed treasure won with blood, buried with blood, sought with blood.
Incredible wealth that Jim and his friends can only claim... There are few
novels which grip so thrillingly as those first read in childhood, and for me
none which has quite matched the excitement of Robert Louis Stevenson's
“Treasure Island". —P. D. James It is a breathless journey and the closest
thing to a real pirate adventure without an eye patch and a time machine... It
is a unique work of genius. —Eoin Colfer Over “Treasure Island” I let my fire
die in winter without knowing I was freezing. —J. M. Barrie “Treasure Island”
[is] the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative
and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm
trees and sapphire seas. —G. K. Chesterton