Treasure Island
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book Treasure Island by Author Robert Louis Stevenson.
An Old Sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow inn on the Bristol Channel, in England. He tell the innkeeper's son Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for “a one-legged seafaring man”. A former shipmate, Black Dog, confronts Bones and engages in a violent fight with him. After Black Dog is run off, a blind beggar named Pew visits to give bones “the black spot” as a summons to share a map leading to buried treasure. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers a stroke and dies. Pew and his accomplices attack the inn, but Jim and his mother save themselves whilst taking some money and a mysterious packet from Bone's sea chest. Pew is then trampled to death by exercise officers. Inside the packet, Jim and his mother find a map of an island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. Jim shows the map to the local Physician Dr. Livesey and the Squire John Trelawney, and they decide to mane an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as cabin boy. They set sail on Trelawney's private schooner, the Hispaniola, under Captain Smollett. Much of the crew, as it is later revealed, are pirates who served under Captain Flint, most notable of which is the ship's one-legged cook Log John Silver.
Treasure Island Wiki
Treasure island was written by author Robert Louis Stevenson after he conceived the idea from an idly drawn treasure map of Stevenson's and that of his stepson Lloyd Osborne on a rainy day in Braemar Scotland and was published on November 14th 1883 by publishers Cassell and Company under the name of The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys, the book was serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks from 1881-1882 and credited to Robert Lewis Stevenson's pseudonym “Captain George North”. From its publication treasure Island inspired many many TV and Movie adaptions as well as several Book sequel and prequel adaptions.
I've gone back to both read and watch various forms of Treasure Island at some point over the past few years. And as such have taken away various different thoughts and ideas from it usually on Jim and Long John Silver and occasionally depending on how I was feeling at that time of the revisit. My favourite interpretations of the story is Muppets Treasure island released in 1996, starring The Muppets as various charecters, Tim Curry as Long John silver and Billy Connolly as Billy Bones the movie received generally good reviews with a 73% rating on Review site Rotten Tomatoes, and Treasure Planet released in 2002 which is a space adaption coming from Disney and received mixed reviews including a 69% on review site Rotten Tomatoes. I give the book a 7 out of 10 and highly recommend the book to all of those who love adventure stories and love to read in general.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th of November 1850 to parents Thomas and Margaret Isabella Stevenson at 8 Howard place Edinburgh Scotland, his birth name was Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson which was changed to Robert Louis Stevenson by 1873. the family's profession was lighthouse design with Margaret coming from a long lineage amongst the Gentry. Stevenson inherited his mothers week chest and was prone though out his childhood to coughs, colds and illnesses. Due to the long periods of Illness Stevenson spent such periods under a tutor rather than attending the schools he'd been enrolled in such as the Edinburgh Academy, however part of his spare time was spent writing, which was thoroughly encouraged by his parents. During the 1870's Stevenson went onto meet two people who would become very important to him. Sidney Colvin and Fanny Sitwell. Stevenson kept up a very warm correspondence with Sitwell which often wavered between the roles of Suitor and Son. Colvin became Stevenson's literary advisor and was the first editor of his letters after his death.
Stevenson went onto meet his future wife Fanny Van de Grift Osborne in 1876 and after several years of correspondence and Osborne having issues with her husbands infidelity which resulted in divorce. Stevenson and Osborne married in May 1880, Osborne even managed to reunite Stevenson with his parents especially his father after they returned to the UK with her son Lloyd, which was caused by differences of religious opinion a few years earlier.
In 1890 Stevenson and his family went to live on a bought tract of land on the Samoan Island of Upolu, Stevenson's influence spread throughout the Samoans and ended up being consulted often and was involved in local politics. During this time, Stevenson struggled with his work in the last few years of his life having grown depressed and wondering if he'd exhausted his creative vein due to being bitterly overworked and that the best he could write was “Ditch-Water”, he had a returning spur of energy and wrote the Weir of Hermiston which went onto be published by Chatto and Windus in 1896 two years after his death.
Stevenson passed away on December 3rd 1894 at the age of 44, having collapsed a few hours earlier possibly due to a cerebral haemorrhage. The Samoans insisted on a watch guard during the night before his burrial and was buried on a spot on Mount Vaea, which overlooked the sea. The land was donated by British acting Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson was so loved by the Samoans his Epigraph was translated to a Samoan Song of Grief:
Under the wide and starry sky,
dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
and I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Wiki
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Treasure_Island
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