X marks the spot. When young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead sailor’s chest, he ships out to recover a pirate hoard, unaware that the ship’s charming one legged cook, Long John Silver, has plans of his own.
Every pirate cliche you know, the parrot, the black spot, fifteen men on a dead man’s chest, was invented here, and the original still outsails the imitations. Silver remains fiction’s most beloved villain.
Adventure in its purest form, for readers of any age.
