Jim Hawkins is a young boy who helps his parents run their seaside inn. When their lodger Billy Bones dies, Jim gains possession of a map that indicates the location of a hoard of gold hidden by pirates in a Caribbean island. Jim seeks the advice of Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, and together they decide to set out on a treasure hunt. The adventure starts with their journey in the schooner Hispaniola. The majority of the crew is a group of bloodthirsty pirates, led by the wily Long John Silver, preparing a mutiny. Silver also assumes the role of a father figure for Jim. The novel is filled with buried treasure and treasure maps, pirates and mutinies, gunfights and sword fights, narrow escapes, and a young hero who manages to save the day.

The Old Sea-Dog 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; 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; How My Shore Adventure Began; The First Blow; The Man of the Island; 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; The Attack; How My Sea Adventure Began; The Ebb-Tide Runs; The Cruise of the Coracle; I Strike the Jolly Roger; Israel Hands; “Pieces of Eight”; In the Enemy’s Camp; The Black Spot Again; On Parole; The Treasure-Hunt—Flint’s Pointer; The Treasure-Hunt—The Voice among the Trees; The Fall of a Chieftain; And Last;

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