Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746080153
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune.
The Annotated Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781937075019
Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published as a serialized children's story in 1881-1882, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island has become an enduring classic. It has all the elements of a great adventure story: a plot full of twists and turns, an escalating sense of treachery and impending disaster, and a quintessential villain. Teenager Jim Hawkins finds a map titled "Treasure Island" in the belongings of a stricken lodger at the Admiral Benbow Inn in 1750s England. He soon finds himself aboard the schooner Hispaniola with a crew of disguised pirates headed to the Caribbean on a quest to find buried treasure. Long John Silver, the peg-legged cook, is the leader of this wretched crew. He is both engaging and ruthless, feared by even his barbarous accomplices, and a shape-shifter, pretending to be Jim's good friend and enemy, secretly plotting a mutiny. When mutiny begins, Jim must save the day. This beloved adventure story is pure fiction--but fiction well grounded in historical and geographical reality. In The Annotated Treasure Island, editor and researcher Simon Barker-Benfield meticulously and lovingly annotates this voyage, offering crucial factual information, a sociopolitical context, and clear technical explanations that bring you closer to the action. Lavishly illustrated with pictures of nautical equipment, parts of ships, and period maps, The Annotated Treasure Island brings the seafaring vernacular to life. You'll learn about "blocks," "backstays," and "shrouds." And you'll see Jim and the crew handle the Hispaniola, whether it's the "simple" chore of raising the anchor--which in a similar, real vessel could require three hours'-worth of hauling in a very slimy cable six inches at a time--or the difficulty and meaning of "warping" and "putting a man in the chains" in order to take depth soundings. The story illustrations by Louis Rhead (1857-1926) deftly draw out the escalating dramatic tension. Would all the risk and hardship have been worth it? Just how much treasure was the crew after? What could one have bought with 700,000 pounds sterling in the 1700s? Even that question is answered in this newly annotated edition: it would have been enough to buy and outfit a fleet of eleven 104-gun battleships of the period. Seven hundred thousand pounds sterling was serious money, enough money that some men would do almost anything to get it.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Treasure Island, published in 1883, popularized the now familiar characters of pirates and brought them to rum-swilling life. When an old sailor named Billy Bones dies in the inn belonging to young Jim Hawkins’s parents, he leaves a greasy old map on which an “X” marks the spot where treasure is buried. Jim joins the crew of a ship in pursuit of Bones’s treasure, and on the seas meets up with Long John Silver, a peg-legged pirate who has infiltrated their ranks. Jim must survive mutinies and counter-mutinies, face hand-to-hand combat with drunken sailors, and outwit double-crossing thieves before the treasure can be his.
Treasure Island, And, the Black Arrow
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974595761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Squire trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the begin ning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treas ure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year Of grace 17 and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown Old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails and the sabre cut across one cheek.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199560358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Stevenson's classic tale of buccaneers, a treasure map, and a hunt for buried gold introduced the character of Long John Silver and brought moral ambiguity into children's books. This new edition celebrates the ultimate book of pirates and examines its innovations and unrivalled place in literary history.
How to Write a Novel
Author: Nathan BransfordPublisher: Nathan Bransford
ISBN: 173414940X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."
Treasure Island (with Over 140 Illustrations and Nearly 450 Annotations)
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9784909069009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Written to entertain his twelve year old step-son, Treasure Island has entertained millions for over a century. The story and illustrations for it have heavily shaped the pirate adventure genre and the popular image of pirates. Complete and unabridged with nearly 450 annotations, great care has been taken to refurbish the over 140 illustrations and decorations used in this edition. Please note, this edition of Treasure Island is ONLY the paperback. On Amazon Europe's website this book's page is mixed with numerous other versions of the book.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pirates
Languages : da
Pages : 237
Book Description
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Great Illustrated Classics).
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description