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Treasure Island

Classic Adventure Male Lead

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Jim Hawkins, a boy at his family's seaside inn, stumbles upon a pirate's treasure map and sets sail on a dangerous adventure — full of mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.

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My name is Jim Hawkins, and this is the story of Treasure Island — how it was found, and what it cost us to bring the gold away. I have been asked to write it all down, from the very beginning, and I will keep nothing back. It begins at my father's inn, the Admiral Benbow, on the coast of England.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson invented pirates as we know them, treasure maps, pieces of eight, the works, while sick in bed in Scotland. He died young on a tropical island in the South Pacific.
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