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　　Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none so apt as Peake's--first published in 1949 and out of print until now.

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Throughout his life, Robert Louis BalfourStevenson was tormented by poor health. Yet despite frequentphysical collapses–mainly due to constant respiratory illness–hewas an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters,travel books, and children’s books. He was born on November 13,1850, in Edinburgh, of a prosperous family of lighthouse engineers.Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studiedinstead for the Scottish bar. By the time he was called to the bar,however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he neveractually practiced law. In 1880, against his family’s wishes, hemarried an American divorcée, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who wasten years his senior; but the family was soon reconciled to thematch, and the marriage proved a happy one.

Throughout his life, Robert Louis Balfour
Stevenson was tormented by poor health. Yet despite frequent
physical collapses–mainly due to constant respiratory illness–he
was an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters,
travel books, and children’s books. He was born on November 13,
1850, in Edinburgh, of a prosperous family of lighthouse engineers.
Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studied
instead for the Scottish bar. By the time he was called to the bar,
however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he never
actually practiced law. In 1880, against his family’s wishes, he
married an American divorcée, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was
ten years his senior; but the family was soon reconciled to the
match, and the marriage proved a happy one. 
　　All his life Stevenson traveled–often in a desperate quest for
health. He and Fanny, having married in California and spent their
honeymoon by an abandoned silver mine, traveled back to Scotland,
then to Switzerland, to the South of France, to the American
Adirondacks, and finally to the south of France, to the South Seas.
As a novelist he was intrigued with the genius of place: Treasure
Island (1883) began as a map to amuse a boy. Indeed, all his works
reveal a profound sense of landscape and atmosphere: Kidnapped
(1886); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); The
Master of Ballantrae (1889). 
　　In 1889 Stevenson’s deteriorating health exiled him to the
tropics, and he settled in Samoa, where he was given patriarchal
status by the natives. His health improved, yet he remained
homesick for Scotland, and it was to the “cold old huddle of grey
hills” of the Lowlands that he returned in his last, unfinished
masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston (1896). 
　　Stevenson dies suddenly on December 3, 1894, not of the
long-feared tuberculosis, but of a cerebral hemorrhage. The kindly
author of Jekyll and Hyde went down to the cellar to fetch a bottle
of his favorite burgundy, uncorked it in the kitchen, abruptly
cried out to his wife, “What’s the matter with me, what is this
strangeness, has my face changed?”–and fell to the floor. The
brilliant storyteller and master of transformations had been struck
down at forty-four, at the height of his creative powers.

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PART I- THE OLD BUCCANEER
CHAPTER I. The Old Sea-Doe at the 'Admiral Benbow'
Black Dog Appears and Disappears
The Black Spot
The Sea-Chest
The Last of the Blind Man
The Captain's Papers
PART II - THE SEA-COOK
I Go to Bristol
At the Sign of the 'Spy-glass'
Powder and Arms
The Voyage
What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
Council of War "

PART  I- THE  OLD  BUCCANEER 
CHAPTER I. The Old Sea-Doe at the 'Admiral Benbow' 
Black Dog Appears and Disappears 
The Black Spot 
The Sea-Chest 
The Last of the Blind Man 
The Captain's Papers 
PART II - THE SEA-COOK 
I Go to Bristol 
At the Sign of the 'Spy-glass' 
Powder and Arms 
The Voyage 
What I Heard in the Apple Barrel 
Council of War        
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PART III - MY SHORE ADVENTURE 
How My Shore Adventure Began 
The First Blow 
The Man of the Island  
PART 1V - THE STOCKADE 
Narrative Continued by the Doctor: 
How the Ship Was Abandoned 
Narrative Continued by the Doctor." 
The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip 
Narrative Continued by the Doctor: 
End of the First Day's Fighting 
Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: 
The Garrison in the Stockade 
Silver's Embassy 
7he Attack 
PART V - MY SEA ADVENTURE 
How My Sea Adventure Began 
The Ebb- Tide Runs 
The Cruise of the Coracle 
I Strike the Jolly Roger 
Israel Hands 
'Pieces of Eight'

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"Over Treasure Island I let my fire die in winter without knowing I was freezing."
From the Trade Paperback edition. -- Review

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