Ladybird Classics: Treasure Island
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Treasure Island has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children, while retaining all the key events and characters of the Treasure Island story, including Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and Ben Gunn; deadly pirate battles; ship-bound adventures; and the hunt for treasure.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
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