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"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson is considered by many the best book about pirates. This classic adventure story has it all: pirates, a treasure hunt, the one-legged villain Long John Silver, the little boy and narrator Jim Hawkins, and a captivating storyline.
This 1911 replica with color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, one of America's greatest illustrators, is a must read and keepsake for lovers of Treasure Island no matter your age.
Brief description: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).