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Treasure Island by: Robert Louis Stevenson, Illustrated By: N. C. Wyeth: Classics for Younger Readers. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945), Known as N.C. Wyeth, Was an American Artist and Illustrator. by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback / softback, 2017)

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Treasure Island is an adventure vel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Its influence is ermous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. PLOT: PART I- THE OLD BUCCANEER An old sailor, calling himself the captain -real name Billy Bones-comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west English coast during the mid-1700s, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for a one-legged seafaring man. A seaman with intact legs shows up, frightening Billy-who drinks far too much rum-into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from yet ather man, Billy has ather stroke and dies; Jim and his mother (his father has also died just a few days before) unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map. The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where a deceased pirate-Captain Flint-buried a vast treasure. The district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ship's doctor and Jim as cabin boy. PART II- THE SEA COOK Several weeks later, Trelawney sends for Jim and Livesey and introduces them to Long John Silver, a one-legged Bristol tavern-keeper whom he has hired as ship's cook. (Silver enhances his outre attributes-crutch, pirate argot, etc.-with a talking parrot.) They also meet Captain Smollett, who tells them that he dislikes most of the crew on the voyage, which it seems everyone in Bristol kws is a search for treasure. After taking a few precautions, however, they set sail on Trelawny's schooner, the Hispaniola, for the distant island. During the voyage, the first mate, a drunkard, disappears overboard. And just before the island is sighted, Jim-concealed in an apple barrel-overhears Silver talking with two other crewmen. They are all former gentlemen o'fortune (pirates) in Flint's crew and have planned a mutiny. Jim alerts the captain, doctor, and squire, and they calculate that they will be seven to 19 against the mutineers and must pretend t to suspect anything until the treasure is found when they can surprise their adversaries. PART III- MY SHORE ADVENTURE But after the ship is anchored, Silver and some of the others go ashore, and two men who refuse to join the mutiny are killed-one with so loud a scream that everyone realizes there can be more pretense. Jim has impulsively joined the shore party and covertly witnessed Silver committing one of the murders; w, in fleeing, he encounters a half-crazed Englishman, Ben Gunn, who tells him he was marooned here and can help against the mutineers in return for passage home and part of the treasure............... Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish velist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945), kwn as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1] During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, [2] 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best kwn.The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.....

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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154539752x
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9781545397527
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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General & Literary Fiction
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Robert Louis Stevenson

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16/04/2017
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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Treasure Island by: Robert Louis Stevenson, Illustrated By: N. C. Wyeth: Classics for Younger Readers. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945), Known as N.C. Wyeth, Was an American Artist and Illustrator. by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback / softback, 2017)

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