Treasure Island is an exciting adventure story about a buried treasure and treasure maps, pirates and mutinies gunfights and sword fights, narrow scapes and a young hero who manages to save thwe day. The book opens in a seaside inn where the owner's son, Jim Hawkins is writing down his experience about his voyage to the treasure Island. He recounts a series of strange occurrences at the inn that took him away from the calm country life to a venturesome voyage to the treasure Island.The griping tale is also the story of one boys coming of age. At the outset of the novel.
About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880 he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson’s most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
