Arrow, a drunkard, is washed overboard during a storm. The crew suffers a tragedy when first mate Mr. Jim forms a strong bond with the ship's one-legged cook, Long John Silver. They set sail on Trelawney's schooner, the Hispaniola, under Captain Smollett. Livesey and the squire John Trelawney, and they decide to make an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as a cabin boy. Jim shows the map to the local physician Dr. Jim and his mother escape with a packet from The Captain's sea chest, which is found to contain a map of the island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure.
Pew and his accomplices attack the inn but are attacked and routed by mounted excise officers, and Pew is trampled to death by one of their horses. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers another stroke and dies. Days later, Pew, a blind beggar, visits the inn, delivering a summons to Bones called "the black spot". They get into a swordfight Black Dog flees, and Bones suffers a stroke. Black Dog, a sailor, recognizes the captain as his former shipmate Billy Bones, and confronts him. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". In the mid-18th century, an old sailor who identifies himself as "The Captain" starts to lodge at the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on England's Bristol Channel. Summary Stevenson's map of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins hiding in the apple-barrel, listening to the pirates Since its publication, Treasure Island has had significant influence on depictions of pirates in popular culture, including elements such as deserted tropical islands, treasure maps marked with an "X", and one-legged seamen with parrots perched on their shoulders. It has since become one of the most often dramatized and adapted of all novels, in numerous media. It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co. The novel was originally serialised from 1881 to 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks, under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys ) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of " buccaneers and buried gold".
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