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Return to Treasure Island
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This ebook includes a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island!
A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved classic—about two young friends and their high-seas adventure with dangerous pirates and long-lost treasure.
It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn called the Hispaniola on the English coast with his son, Jim, and Long John Silver has returned to England to live in obscurity with his daughter, Natty. Their lives are quiet and unremarkable; their adventures have seemingly ended.
But for Jim and Natty, the adventure is just beginning. One night, Natty approaches young Jim with a proposition: return to Treasure Island and find the remaining treasure that their fathers left behind so many years before. As Jim and Natty set sail in their fathers' footsteps, they quickly learn that this journey will not be easy. Immediately, they come up against murderous pirates, long-held grudges, and greed and deception lurking in every corner. And when they arrive on Treasure Island, they find terrible scenes awaiting them—difficulties which require all their wit as well as their courage. Nor does the adventure end there, since they have to sail homeward again...
Andrew Motion’s sequel—rollicking, heartfelt, and utterly brilliant—would make Robert Louis Stevenson proud.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island inspires former UK poet laureate Motion's latest foray into fiction. Jim Hawkins, Stevenson's narrator, having spent his share of the treasure now owns a quiet inn on the Thames. His son, also named Jim, who narrates the tale, has grown up hearing his father's incessant yarns about the Hispaniola's voyage. One evening a tomboyish girl appears, traveling in her own boat and seeking out young Jim. She is Natty Silver, daughter of wily old Long John, come with a proposition from her father: with the help of Jim the elder's map, which his son must "borrow," the two children will set sail with a crew handpicked by Silver and recover the treasure left behind by their fathers. Jim consents, slips the map from its usual hiding place, and Jim and Natty's ship, the Silver Nightingale, departs, unknowingly bound for far more than bars of silver and a few marooned pirates. Motion's writing is smooth and sure, evoking a period atmosphere without undue effort. But aside from descriptions of the island's flora and fauna, some psychological depth, and an injection of moral gravity greater than treasure seeking, the narrative arc of his tale feels too much like its predecessor. Fans of the original will doubtless enjoy this story of high adventure, but might come away wishing Motion had been more ambitious in his sequel.
