When an old sea Captain named Billy Bones leaves behind a mysteriouschest at Jim Hawkins' parents inn, Jim discovers a map to the legendaryTreasure Island!Fingers keepers, right?Jim sets sail to Treasure Island with Long John Silver and his ragtagcrew but can they be trusted?Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of aprosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the familyprofession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University.Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence ofCalvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is sopowerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from asevere respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him tosettle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, FannyOsbourne.
