Treasure Island by r.l. Stevenson (Alok Kumar Jha)

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ABOUT BOOK

Treasure Islandis an adventure novel by Scottish authorRobert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of

"buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in

the children's magazineYoung Folksbetween 188182 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny ofthe Hispaniolawith Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.

Traditionally considered acoming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its

atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality as

seen inLong John Silver unusual forchildren's literaturenow and then. It is one of the most frequently

dramatized of all novels. The influence ofTreasure Islandon popular perceptions ofpiratesis enormous,includingtreasure mapsmarked with an "X",schooners,the Black Spot,tropical islands, and one-legged

seamen carryingparrotson their shoulders.[1]

Treasure Island the gold treasure

Cover illustration byN.C. Wyethfrom 1911Author(s) Robert Louis StevensonCover artist N.C. WyethCountry United KingdomLanguage EnglishGenre(s) Adventure
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Young Adult LiteraturePublisher London: Cassell and Company (Now

part ofOrion Publishing Group)Publication date 1883

PLOT SUMMARY

The novel is divided into 6 parts and 34 chapters: Jim Hawkinsis the narrator of all except for chapters

16-18, which are narrated by Doctor Livesey.

The novel opens in the seaside village of Black Hill Cove in south-west England (to Stevenson, in his

letters[2]

and in the related fictional play Admiral Guinea,[3]nearBarnstaple,Devon) in the mid-18th

century. Thenarrator, James "Jim" Hawkins, is the young son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn.An old drunken seaman namedBilly Bonesbecomes a long-term lodger at the inn, only paying for about

the first week of his stay. Jim quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly dreads

meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg. Some months later, Bones is visited by a mysterious

sailor named Black Dog. Their meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees and Bones suffers a stroke. While

Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of the late notorious pirate, Captain Flint,

and that his old crewmates want Bones' sea chest. Some time later, another of Bones' crew mates, a

blind man named Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him to Bones. Pew gives Bones a

paper. After Pew leaves, Bones opens the paper to discover it is marked with the Black Spot, a

piratesummons, with the warning that he has until ten o'clock to meet their demands. Bones drops dead

ofapoplexy(in this context, astroke) on the spot. Jim and his mother open Bones' sea chest to collect the

amount due to them for Bones' room and board, but before they can count out the money that they areowed, they hear pirates approaching the inn and are forced to flee and hide, Jim taking with him a

mysteriousoilskinpacket from the chest. The pirates, led by Pew, find the sea chest and the money, but

are frustrated that there is no sign of "Flint's fist". Customs men approach and the pirates escape to their

vessel (all except for Pew, who is accidentally run down and killed by the agents' horses).

p. 27-8: "...{Pew} made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming

horses. The rider tried to save him, but in vain. Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night;

and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by. He fell on his side, then gently collapsed

upon his face, and moved no more." Stevenson, R.L.

Jim takes the mysterious oilskin packet to Dr. Livesey, as he is a "gentleman and a magistrate", and he,

Squire Trelawney and Jim Hawkins examine it together, finding it contains a logbook detailing the

treasure looted during Captain Flint's career, and a detailed map of an island with the location of Flint's

treasure marked on it. Squire Trelawney immediately plans to commission a sailing vessel to hunt for the

treasure, with the help of Dr. Livesey and Jim. Livesey warns Trelawney to be silent about their objective.

Going toBristoldocks, Trelawney buys aschoonernamed the Hispaniola, hires a captain, AlexanderSmollett to command her, and retainsLong John Silver, a former seacookand now the owner of the

dock-side "Spy-Glass" tavern, to run the galley. Silver helps Trelawney to hire the rest of his crew. When

Jim arrives in Bristol and visits Silver at the Spy-Glass, his suspicions are aroused: Silver is missing a leg,
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like the man Bones warned Jim about, and Black Dog is sitting in the tavern. Black Dog runs away at the

sight of Jim, and Silver denies all knowledge of the fugitive so convincingly that he wins Jim's trust.

Despite Captain Smollett's misgivings about the mission and Silver's hand-picked crew,

the Hispaniolasets sail for theCaribbean.

As they near their destination, Jim crawls into the ship's near-empty apple barrel to get an apple. While

inside, he overhears Silver talking secretly with some of the crewmen. Silver admits that he was CaptainFlint'squartermaster, that several others of the crew were also once Flint's men, and that he is recruiting

more men from the crew to his own side. After Flint's treasure is recovered, Silver intends to murder

the Hispaniola's officers, and keep the loot for himself and his men. When the pirates have returned totheir berths, Jim warns Smollett, Trelawney and Livesey of the impendingmutiny. On reaching Treasure

Island, the majority of Silver's men go ashore immediately. Although Jim is not yet aware of this, Silver's

men have demanded they seize the treasure immediately, discarding Silver's own more careful plan to

postpone any open mutiny or violence until after the treasure is safely aboard. Jim lands with Silver's

men, but runs away from them almost as soon as he is ashore. Hiding in the woods, Jim sees Silver

murder Tom, a crewman loyal to Smollett. Running for his life, he encountersBen Gunn, another ex-

crewman of Flint's who has beenmaroonedfor three years on the island, but who treats Jim kindly.

Meanwhile, Trelawney, Livesey and their loyal crewmen surprise and overpower the few pirates left

aboard the Hispaniola. They row ashore and move into an abandoned, fortified stockade where they arejoined by Jim Hawkins, who has left Ben Gunn behind. Silver approaches under a flag of truce and tries

to negotiate Smollett's surrender; Smollett rebuffs him utterly, and Silver flies into a rage, promising to

attack the stockade. "Them that die'll be the lucky ones," he famously threatens as he storms off. The

pirates assault the stockade, but in a furious battle with losses on both sides, they are driven off. During

the night Jim sneaks out, takes Ben Gunn'scoracleand approaches the Hispaniolaunder cover ofdarkness. He cuts the ship's anchor rope, setting her adrift and out of reach of the pirates on shore. After

daybreak, he manages to approach the schooner and board her. Of the two pirates left aboard, only one

is still alive: the coxswain,Israel Hands, who has murdered his comrade in a drunken brawl and been

badly wounded in the process. Hands agrees to help Jim helm the ship to a safe beach in exchange for

medical treatment and brandy, but once the ship is approaching the beach Hands tries to murder Jim. Jimescapes by climbing therigging, and when Hands tries to skewer him with a thrown dagger, Jim

reflexively shoots Hands dead. Having beached the Hispaniolasecurely, Jim returns to the stockadeunder cover of night and sneaks back inside. Because of the darkness, he does not realize until too late

that the stockade is now occupied by the pirates, and he is captured. Silver, whose always-shaky

command has become more tenuous than ever, seizes on Jim as a hostage, refusing his men's demands

to kill him or torture him for information. Silver's rivals in the pirate crew, led by George Merry, give Silver

the Black Spot and move to depose him as captain. Silver answers his opponents eloquently, rebuking

them for defacing a page from theBibleto create the Black Spot and revealing that he has obtained the

treasure map from Dr. Livesey, thus restoring the crew's confidence. The following day, the pirates search

for the treasure. They are shadowed by Ben Gunn, who makes ghostly sounds to dissuade them from

continuing, but Silver forges ahead and locates where Flint's treasure is buried. The pirates discover thatthe cache has been rifled and the treasure is gone.
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One More Step, Mr. Handsby N. C. Wyeth, 1911, forTreasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson

The enraged pirates turn on Silver and Jim, but Ben Gunn, Dr. Livesey and Abraham Gray attack the

pirates, killing two and dispersing the rest. Silver surrenders to Dr. Livesey, promising to return to his duty.

They go to Ben Gunn's cave where Gunn has had the treasure hidden for some months. The treasure is

divided amongst Trelawney and his loyal men, including Jim and Ben Gunn, and they return to England,

leaving the surviving pirates marooned on the island. Silver, through the help of the fearful Ben Gunn,

escapes with a small part of the treasure, three or four hundredguineas. Remembering Silver, Jim

reflects that "I dare say he met his old Negress [wife], and perhaps still lives in comfort with her and

Captain Flint [his parrot]. It is to be hoped so, I suppose, for his chances of comfort in another world are

very small."

Backstory

Treasure Islandcontains numerous references to fictional past events, gradually revealed throughout,that shed light upon the events of the main climax. These refer to the pirateCaptain J. Flint, "the

bloodthirstiest buccaneer that ever lived", who is dead before "Treasure Island" begins. Flint was captain

of the Walrus, with a long career chiefly in the West Indies and along the coasts of the southern Americancolonies. His crew included a number of characters who also appear in the main story: Flint'sfirst mate,

William (Billy) Bones; hisquartermasterJohn Silver; his gunner Israel Hands; and among his other sailors:

George Merry, Tom Morgan, Pew, "Black Dog" and Allardyce (who becomes Flint's "pointer" toward the

treasure). Many other former members of Flint's crew were on the Hispaniola, though it is not alwayspossible to identify which were Flint's men and which later agreed to join the mutiny such as the

boatswain Job Anderson and a mutineer "John", killed at the rifled treasure cache. Flint and his crew were

successful, ruthless, feared ("the roughest crew afloat") and rich, provided they could keep their hands on

the money they stole. The bulk of the treasure Flint made by his piracy 700,000 worth of gold, silver

bars and a cache of armaments was buried on a remote Caribbean island. Flint brought the treasure

ashore from the Walruswith six of his sailors, and built a stockade on the island for defence. When theyhad buried the treasure, Flint returned to the Walrus alone -having murdered the other six. A map to the

location of the treasure he kept to himself until his dying moments.
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The whereabouts of Flint's money and his crew are obscure immediately thereafter, but they ended up in

the town ofSavannah,Province of Georgia. Flint was ill, and his sickness was not helped by his

immoderate consumption of rum. On his sickbed, he sang thesea shanty"Fifteen Men" and ceaselessly

called for more rum, with his face turning blue. His last living words were "Darby M'Graw! Darby M'Graw!",

and then, following some profanity, "Fetch aft the rum, Darby!" Just before he died, he passed on the

treasure map to the mate of the Walrus, Billy Bones (or so Bones always maintained). After Flint's death,the crew split up, most of them returning to England. They disposed of their shares of the unburied

treasure diversely. John Silver held on to 2,000, putting it away safe in banks, and became a waterfront

tavern keeper in Bristol, England. Pew spent 1,200 in a single year and for the next two years afterwards

begged and starved. Ben Gunn returned to the treasure island with crew mates to try to find the treasure

without the map, and as his efforts failed, he was marooned on the island and left. Bones, knowing

himself to be a marked man for his possession of the map, looked for refuge in a remote part of England.

His travels took him to the ruralWest Countryseaside village of Black Hill Cove and the inn of the

'Admiral Benbow'.

[edit]Main characters

Billy Bones- The old seaman who stays at the Admiral Benbow inn. He is a pirate who has acquired

the map that shows the location of Captain Flint's treasure.

Jim Hawkins- The principal narrator of the story. He gets involved in the adventure because his

parents own the Admiral Benbow inn where Billy Bones stays. Jim is a young boy (1314 years old),

and after his father's death he begins to make his own way in the world. He is recruited as cabin boy

on the Hispaniola, and through his curiosity and courage, he plays a crucial role in the eventual

defeat of the pirates: he retrieves the map of Treasure Island from Billy Bones; he becomes aware of

Silver's plot and informs the ship's officers of the mutiny; and he meets Ben Gunn, which leads him to

Ben's boat, which enables him to reboard and recapture the Hispaniola, killing Israel Hands in self-

defence.

Dr. Livesey- The familyphysicianwho treats Jim Hawkins's dying father and also attends to Billy

Bones. As the ship's doctor, he treats the wounded pirates, even though they are his enemies. Dr.Livesey is no stranger to violence, having in the past served the Duke of Cumberland and been

wounded in battle.

Long John Silver- A one-legged pirate who was quartermaster to the notorious Captain Flint. He is

a very cunning, amoral man who puts on a friendly, helpful exterior while all the time planning

treachery. Initially he was liked by Jim because he performs his duties as cookon the Hispaniola and

he appears to be a model member of the crew. However, he soon reveals his ruthless, violent side,

and once the buccaneers are on the island he murders one of the crew, as Jim watches.

Captain Smollett- The captain of the Hispaniola. At the beginning of the voyage he makes his

misgivings known to Trelawney, who dislikes him. But Smollett is soon proved correct in his

judgments and Trelawney is forced to change his opinion. As a captain, Smollett excels in his tasks,

and prove his determinateness when the mutiny begins. He frequently takes charge of the situation

and efficiently marshals the men for the defence of the loghouse. After he is wounded he takes no

further part in the action.

Squire Trelawney- He is a rich landowner who finances the entire expedition. He buys the

Hispaniola and selects a crew, but he cannot keep a secret and everyone seems to get to know

about the nature of the mission. The squire is a well-traveled man and the best shot amongst the

crew. He also shows effective leadership qualities and keeps a cool head throughout the adventure.
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[edit]Minor characters

Alan - A sailor who does not mutiny. He is killed by the mutineers for his loyalty and his dying scream

is heard by several.

Allardyce - One of the six members of Flint's Crew who - after burying the treasure and silver and

building the blockhouse on Treasure Island - are all killed by Flint. His body is lined up by Flint as a

compass marker to the cache

Job Anderson - The ship's boatswain and one of the leaders of the mutiny who is killed while trying

to storm the blockhouse; possibly one of Flint's old pirate hands (though this is never stated).

Mr. Arrow - Thefirst mateof the Hispaniola. He drinks despite there being a rule about no alcohol onboard and is useless as a first mate. He mysteriously disappears before they get to the island and his

position is filled by Job Anderson. (Silver had secretly given him access to alcohol and he falls

drunkenly overboard on a stormy night.)

Black Dog - Formerly a member of Flint's pirate crew, later one of Pew's companions who visits the

Admiral Benbow. Spotted by Jim and chased by two of Silver's men, but disappears from sight.

Abraham Gray - A ship'scarpenteron the Hispaniola. He is almost incited to mutiny, but remainsloyal to the Squire's side when asked to do so by Captain Smollett. He saves Hawkins's life by killing

Job Anderson during an attack on the stockade, and he helps shoot the mutineers at the rifled

treasure cache. He later escapes the island together with Jim Hawkins, Dr. Livesey, Squire

Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Long John Silver and Ben Gunn. He spends his part of the treasure on

his education, marries and becomes part owner of a full-rigged ship.

Benjamin "Ben" Gunn- A former member of Flint's crew who is half insane after being marooned

for three years on Treasure Island, having convinced another ship's crew that he was capable of

finding Flint's treasure. Helps Jim by giving him the location of his homemade boat and kills two of the

mutineers. After Dr. Livesey gives him what he most craves (cheese), Gunn reveals that he has

found the treasure. In Spanish America he lets Silver escape and in England spends his share of the

treasure (1,000GBP) in 19 days, becoming a beggar until he becomes keeper at a lodge and achurch singer "on Sundays and holy days".

Mr. Dance - Chief revenue officer (titled: Supervisor) who ascends with his men upon the 'Admiral

Benbow' inn, driving out the pirates, and saving Jim Hawkins and his mother. He then takes Hawkins

to see the squire and the doctor.

Dogger - One of Mr Dance's associates, who doubles Hawkins on his horse to the squire's house.

Israel Hands - The ship's coxswain and Flint's old gunner. Killed on Hispaniolaby Jim.

John - A mutineer who is injured while trying to storm the blockhouse. He is later shown with a

bandaged head and ends up being killed at the rifled treasure cache.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins - The parents of Jim Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins dies shortly after the beginning of

the story.

John Hunter - The other manservant of Squire Trelawney. He also accompanies him to the island,

but is later knocked unconscious at an attack on the stockade. He dies of his injuries while

unconscious.

Dick Johnson - A mutineer who has a Bible. The pirates use one of its pages to make a Black Spot.

Mortally ill withmalaria, Dick ends up being marooned on the island after the deaths of George Merry

and John.
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Richard Joyce - One of the manservants of Squire Trelawney, he accompanies him to the island. He

is shot through the head and killed by a mutineer during an attack on the stockade.

George Merry - With Anderson and Hands he forced Silver to attack the blockhouse instead of

waiting for the treasure to be found. Later killed at the empty cache just as he is about to kill both

Silver and Hawkins.

Tom Morgan - An ex-pirate from Flint's old crew. He ends up marooned on the island.

O'Brien - A mutineer who survives the attack on the boathouse and escapes. He is later killed by

Israel Hands in a drunken fight on the Hispaniola.

Pew - An evil and deadly blind beggar who is trampled to death in a stampede of horses. Stevenson

avoided predictability by making the two most fearsome characters a blind man and an amputee. In

the play Admiral Guinea(1892), Stevenson gives him the full name "David Pew". Stevenson'snovelKidnappedalso features a dangerous blind man.

Tom Redruth - The gamekeeper of Squire Trelawney, he accompanies the Squire to the island but is

shot and killed by the mutineers during an attack on the stockade.

Tom - An honest sailor. He starts to walk away from Silver who throws his crutch at him, breaking

Tom's back. Silver kills Tom by stabbing him twice in the back.

Among other minor characters whose names are not revealed are the four pirates who were killed in an

attack on the stockade along with Job Anderson; the pirate killed by the honest men minus Jim Hawkins

before the attack on the stockade; the pirate shot by Squire Trelawney when aiming at Israel Hands, who

later died of his injuries; and the pirate marooned on the island along with Tom Morgan and Dick.

[edit]Historical allusions

[edit]Real pirates and piracies

Five real-life pirates mentioned areWilliam Kidd(active 1696-1699),Blackbeard(1716

1718),Edward England(17171720),Howell Davis(17181719), andBartholomew Roberts(1718

1722). Kidd actually buried treasure onGardiners Island, though the booty was recovered byauthorities soon afterwards.

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The name "Israel Hands" was taken from that of a real pirate in Blackbeard's crew, whom Blackbeard

maimed (by shooting him in the knee) simply to assure that his crew remained in terror of him.

Allegedly Hands was taken ashore to be treated for his injury and was not at Blackbeard's last fight

(the incident is depicted inTim Powers' novelOn Stranger Tides); this alone saved him from thegallows; supposedly he later became a beggar in England.

Silver refers to "three hundred and fifty thousand"pieces of eightat the "fishing up of the wrecked

plate ships". This remark conflates two related events; first, the salvage of the treasure of the

hurricane-wrecked1715 Treasure Fleetoff the coast of Florida, and second the seizure the following

year of 350,000 salvaged pieces of eight (out of several million) by privateerHenry Jennings. This

event is mentioned in the introduction toJohnson'sGeneral History of the Pyrates.

Silver refers to a ship's surgeon from Roberts' crew who amputated his leg and was later hanged

atCape Corso Castle, a British fortification on the Gold Coast of Africa. The records of the trial of

Roberts' men list one Peter Scudamore as the chief surgeon of Roberts' ship Royal Fortune.Scudamore was found guilty of willingly serving with Roberts' pirates and various related criminal

acts, as well as attempting to lead a rebellion to escape once he had been apprehended. He was, as

Silver relates, hanged, in 1722.
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[edit]Other allusions

1689: A pirate whistles "Lillibullero" (1689).

1702: The Admiral Benbow Inn where Jim and his mother live is named after the real life

AdmiralJohn Benbow(16531702).

1733:Captain Flintdied in the town of Savannah, Georgia, founded in 1733. 1745: Doctor Livesey was at theBattle of Fontenoy(1745).

1747: Squire Trelawney and Long John Silver both mention "Admiral Hawke", i.e.Edward Hawke, 1st

Baron Hawke(17051781), promoted to Rear Admiral in 1747.

1749: The novel refers to theBow Street Runners(1749).

[edit]Time frame

Stevenson deliberately leaves the exact date of the novel obscure, Hawkins writing that he takes up his

pen "in the year of grace 17--." However, some of the action can be connected with dates, although it is

unclear if Stevenson had an exact chronology in mind. The first date is 1745, as established both by Dr.

Livesey's service at Fontenoy and a date appearing in Billy Bones's log. Admiral Hawke is a household

name, implying a date later than 1747, when Hawke gained fame at theBattle of Cape Finisterreand waspromoted to Admiral, but prior to Hawke's death in 1781.

Another hint, though obscure, as to the date is provided by Squire Trelawney's letter from Bristol in

Chapter VII, where he indicates his wish to acquire a sufficient number of sailors to deal with "natives,

buccaneers, or the odious French". This expression suggests that Great Britain was, at that time, at war

with France; e.g., during theSeven Years' Warfrom 1756 to 1763.

Stevenson's map of Treasure Island includes the annotations Treasure Island Aug 1 1750 J.F. and Givenby above J.F. to MrW. Bones Maste of yeWalrus Savannah this twenty July 1754 W B. The first of thesetwo dates is likely the date at which Flint left his treasure at the island; the second, just prior to Flint's

death. As Flint is reliably reported to have died at least three years before the events of the novel (the

length of time that Ben Gunn was marooned), it cannot take place earlier than 1757 and still be consistentwith the map. The events of Treasure Island would therefore seem to have taken place no earlier than

1757. As the schoonerHispanioladocks peacefully at a port inSpanish America where it even finds aBritishman-of-war at the end of the story, it must also take place before January 1762, when Spain

joined theSeven Years' Waragainst Great Britain. As the main action of the book takes place between

January and August of a single year, the evidence above implies a year between 1758 and 1761,

inclusive.

This range of dates, however, contradicts Long John Silver's account of himself, as given to Dick while

Jim Hawkins listened in the apple barrel. Silver claims to be fifty years old, which would place his birth no

earlier than 1708; and both Silver and Israel Hands, who had been in Flint's crew together, claim to have

had experience on the sea (presumably as pirates) for thirty years prior to their arrival at Treasure Island,

i.e. since about 1728. However, Silver claims to have sailed "First withEngland, then with Flint", whichpushes the beginning of his career to some time before 1720, the date of Captain Edward England's

death, implying a longer career at sea than thirty years. Silver also says that the surgeon who amputated

his leg was hanged with Roberts's crew atCorso Castle: this would mean he has been disabled at least

since 1722, at an age no greater than 14an age incompatible with his holding as significant an office as

quartermaster under Captain Flint, or with being a crewman under England who was senior enough, and

served long enough, to have "laid by nine hundred [pounds] safe".
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As noted, some of the people and events Silver claims to have witnessed were on opposite sides of

Africa at the same time, and Silver's assignments of names and places are not entirely accurate. Silver's

stories, then, may be no more reliable than his claim to have lost his leg while serving under Admiral

Hawke, and containing inconsistencies which his audience were too ignorant to notice. Silver must either

be closer to sixty than fifty, orhis stories of the pirates England and Roberts are fabrications, retellings ofstories he had heard from other pirates, into which he has inserted himselfwhich would account for their

inconsistencies.

[edit]Possible allusions

[edit]Characters

Squire Trelawney may have been named for Edward Trelawney, Governor ofJamaica1738-1752.

Dr. Livesey may have been named forJoseph Livesey(17941884), a famous 19th-century

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[edit]Treasure Island

Dead Chest Islandas viewed from Deadman's Bay,Peter Island

View of Fidra from Yellowcraigs

Map ofUnst IslandwithinShetland

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Norman Islandin theBritish Virgin Islands, supposedly mentioned to a young Stevenson by a sailor

uncle.[7]

Dead Chest Island, a barren rock in the British Virgin Islands, which Stevenson found mentioned

inCharles Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies;[8]and which he said "was the seed" forthe phrase "Dead Man's Chest".

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Small islands inQueen Street GardensinEdinburgh, said to have been visible from Stevenson's

bedroom window in Heriot Row.[11]

TheNapa Valley,California, where Stevenson spent his honeymoon in 1880, as narrated in his TheSilverado Squatters(1883).

Osborn (now Nienstedt) Island, an island in theManasquan RiverinBrielle, New Jersey. Stevenson

supposedly visited the island in May 1888 (five years after writing Treasure Island) and christened it"Treasure Island"

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Fidrain theFirth of Forth, visible fromNorth Berwickwhere Stevenson had spent many childhood

holidays.[14]

Unst, one of theShetlandIslands, to which the map of Treasure Island bears a very vague

resemblance.[15]

La Isla De La Juventudin Cuba is also associated by some with the book, and is supposed to have

similarities with the map drawn by Stevenson, as well as historical connections with pirates. The

island in the book is described as having pine trees running down to the shore and the Cuban island

used to be called La Isla de Pinos, the Island of Pines.[edit]Admiral Benbow

TheLlandoger TrowinBristolis claimed to be the inspiration for the Admiral Benbow,[16]

though the

inn in the book is not in Bristol.

An inn named Admiral Benbow in Penzance, Land's End Peninsula, Cornwall .[17]

[edit]Spyglass Tavern

The Hole in the Wall, Bristol is claimed to be the Spyglass Tavern .[18]

[edit]Flint's death house

The Pirate's HouseinSavannah, Georgiais where Captain Flint is claimed to have spent his lastdays,

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[edit]Sequels and prequels

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[edit]Film and TV

There have been over 50 movie and TV versions made.[27]

Some of the notable ones include:

Film

Poster for the 1934 filmTreasure Island, the first talkie adaptation of the novel

1918 -Treasure IslandSilent version released byFox Film Corporationand directed bySidneyFranklin

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1920 -Treasure Island- A silent version starringShirley Mason, released byParamount Picturesanddirected byMaurice Tourneur. Lost film.

andHiroshi Ikedawith story consultation by famous animatorHayao Miyazaki. This version replaced

several of the human characters with animal counterparts.

1972 -Treasure Island- StarringOrson Welles.

1982 -Treasure Island- Soviet film in three parts; almost verbatim to the text of the novel.FeaturingOleg Borisovas Long John Silver.

1985 -L'le au trsor

1987 -Il Pianeta Del Tesoro - Treasure Planet- Italian / German SF adaptation AKA Treasure Islandin Outer SpacestarringAnthony Quinnas Long John Silver.

1988 -Treasure Island- A critically acclaimed Soviet animation film in two parts. Released in theUSA 1992 as Return to Treasure Island.

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1955 -The Adventures of Long John Silver, 26 episodes shot at Pagewood Studios,Sydney,Australiafilmed in full colour and starringRobert Newton

1964 - Mr. Magoo's Treasure Island, a 2 part episode of the cartoon seriesThe Famous Adventuresof Mr. Magoo(1964) was based on the novel, withMr. Magooin the role ofLong John Silver.

1966 -"Die Schatzinsel"- German-French co-production for German television stationZDF.

1968 -Treasure Island- BBC series of nine 25 minute episodes starringPeter Vaughn.

1977 -Treasure Island- BBC adaptation StarringAshley KnightandAlfred Burke.

1995 - In theWishbone (TV series)episode "Salty Dog", Wishbone explores the story in a children's

adapted version.

2012 -Treasure Island- Two part mini-series shown on Sky1 (United Kingdom) from 12 January.

There are also a number ofReturn to Treasure Islandsequelsproduced, including a 1986Disneymini-

series, a 1992 animation version, and a 1996 and 1998 TV version.

[edit]Theatre and radio

There have been over 24 major stage and radio adaptations made.

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The number of minor adaptationsremains countless.

Orson Wellesbroadcast a radio adaptation viaThe Mercury Theatre on the Airon July 1938; half inEngland, half on the Island; omits "My Sea Adventure"; music byBernard Herrmann;Available

online.

In 1947, a production was mounted at theSt. James's Theatrein London, starringHarry

Welchmanas Long John Silver andJohn Clarkas Jim Hawkins.

For a time, in London there was an annual production at the Mermaid Theatre, originally under the

direction ofBernard Miles, who playedLong John Silver, a part he also played in a television version.

ComedianSpike Milliganwould often play Ben Gunn in these productions.

Pieces of Eight, a musical adaptation byJule Styne, premiered inEdmonton, Alberta, in 1985.

The Henegar Center for the Artsin downtown historic Melbourne, Florida ran an adaptation in August

2009.

The story is also a popular plot and setting for a traditionalpantomimewhere Mrs. Hawkins, Jim's

mother is thedame.

On February 18, 2011, a play adaptation byRichard Rose[disambiguation needed]

opened atBarter

TheatreinAbingdon, Virginia.

In 2011,Tom Hewittstarred inB.H. BarryandVernon Morriss stage adaptation of the novel, which

officially opened March 5 at the Irondale Center inBrooklyn.[31]

In July 2011,Bristol Old Vicstaged a large-scale outdoor production of Treasure Island outside thetheatre onKing Street, Bristoldirected by Sally Cookson, with music by Benji Bower.

In late 2012Big Finish Productionsannounced that they were producing an audio-book adaption of

Treasure Island, written and directed byBarnaby Edwardsand starringTom BakerasLong John

Silver,Nicholas Farrellas the Narrator and Edward Holtom as the story's main protagonist,Jim

Hawkins. The audio-book is scheduled for release in March 2013.

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Charles Sheffield's 1993 novelGodspeedwas a science-fictional retelling ofTreasure Island,recasting the search for pirate treasure as the search for lost faster-than-light drive technology.

SUMMARY 1

Jim Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents inn, the Admiral Benbow, near Bristol, England, in theeighteenth century. An old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn after being presented with a black spot, or

official pirate verdict of guilt or judgment. Jim is stirred to action by the spot and its mysterious, accurate portent of

Billys death. Hastily, Jim and his mother unlock Billys sea chest, finding a logbook and map inside. Hearing steps

outside, they leave with the documents before B illys pursuers ransack the inn.

Jim realizes that the contents he has snatched from the sea chest must be valuable, so he takes one of the

documents he has found to some local acquaintances, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney. Excited, they recognize it

as a map for a huge treasure that the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried on a distant island. Trelawney

immediately starts planning an expedition. Nave in his negotiations to outfit his ship, the Hispaniola, Trelawney is

tricked into hiring one of Flints former mates, Long John Silver, and many of Flints crew. Only the captain, Smollett,

is trustworthy. The ship sets sail for Treasure Island with nothing amiss, until Jim overhears Silvers plans for mutiny.

Jim tells the captain about Silver and the rest of the rebellious crew.

Landing at the island, Captain Smollett devises a plan to get most of the mutineers off the ship, allowing them leisuretime on shore. On a whim, Jim sneaks into the pirates boat and goes ashore with them. Frightened of the pirates,

Jim runs off alone. From a hiding place, he witnesses Silvers murder of a sailor who refuses to join the mutiny. Jim

flees deeper into the heart of the island, where he encounters a half-crazed man named Ben Gunn. Ben had once

served in Flints crew but was marooned on the island years earlier.

Meanwhile, Smollett and his men have gone ashore and taken shelter in a stockade the pirates have built. Jim

returns to the stockade, bringing Ben with him. Silver visits and attempts a negotiation with the captain, but the

captain is wary and refuses to speak to him. The pirates attack the stockade the next day, and the captain is

wounded. Eager to take action, Jim follows another whim and deserts his mates, sneaking off to hunt for Bens

handmade boat hidden in the woods.

After finding Bens boat, Jim sails out to the anchored ship with the intention of cutting it adrift, thereby depriving the

pirates of a means of escape. He cuts the rope, but he realizes his small boat has drifted near the pirates camp and

fears he will be discovered. By chance, the pirates do not spot Jim, and he floats around the island until he catches

sight of the ship drifting wildly. Struggling aboard, he discovers that one of the watchmen, Israel Hands, has killed the

other watchman in a drunken fit. Jim takes control of the ship, but Israel turns against him. Jim is wounded but kills

Israel.

Jim returns to the stockade but finds it occupied by the pirates. Silver takes Jim hostage, telling the boy that the

captain has given the pirates the treasure map, provisions, and the use of the stockade in exchange for their lives.

Jim realizes, however, that Silver is having trouble managing his men, who accuse him of treachery. Silver proposes

to Jim that they help each other survive by pretending Jim is a hostage. However, the men present Silver with a black

spot and inform him that he has been deposed as their commander.

In a desperate attempt to gain control of his crew, Silver shows them the treasure map to appease them. Silver leads

Jim and the men to the treasure site, but they are shocked to find it already excavated and the treasure removed. The

men are angered and near mutiny again. At that moment Dr. Livesey, Ben Gunn, and the others fire on the pirateband, which scatters throughout the island. Jim and Silver flee, and are guided by the others to Bens cave, where

Ben has hidden the treasure, which he had discovered months before.

After spending three days carrying the loot to the ship, the men prepare to set sail for home. There is a debate about

the fate of the remaining mutineers. Despite the pirates submissive pleas, they are left marooned on the island.

Silver is allowed to join the voyage, but he sneaks off the ship one night with a portion of the treasure and is never

heard from again. The voyage home comes to a close. Eventually, Captain Smollet retires from the sea, and Ben

becomes a lodge-keeper. Jim swears off treasure-hunting forever and suffers from nightmares about the sea and

gold coins.
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SUMMARY 2The setting of this story is described by youngJim Hawkinsas the book begins: "Squire

Trelawney,Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the

whole particulars aboutTreasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing

back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure not yet lifted, I

take up my pen in the year of grace 17and go back to the time when my father kept the

Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up lodging

under our roof." Gravely ill,Billy Bonesresides at the Admiral Benbow for "many months."

The brown old seaman' strikes fear into patrons' hearts as he consumes dangerous

quantities of rum and sings an old sea song: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-

ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the

Documents

Treasure Island by r.l. Stevenson (Alok Kumar Jha)