Treasure Island

Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless adventure novel—the book that created our modern image of pirates and buried treasure.

Young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in the chest of an old sea captain who dies at his family's inn. He sets sail aboard the Hispaniola with a crew of gentlemen and sailors, bound for a remote island where the infamous Captain Flint hid his plunder. But Jim overhears the ship's cook, Long John Silver—a one-legged man with a talking parrot—plotting mutiny with his fellow pirates.

What follows is a thrilling chase across the island, a desperate stand in a wooden stockade, and a psychological battle of wits between the boy Jim and the charismatic, ruthless Silver.

First published in 1883, Treasure Island introduced unforgettable characters: the one-legged Silver with his parrot on his shoulder, the terrifying Blind Pew tapping his way down the road, and the mad Ben Gunn, marooned for years on the island. The novel also gave us the pirate shanty "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

Stevenson wrote Treasure Island for his young stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. He reportedly said, "If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day." It fetched them then and has fetched generations of readers ever since.

This audiobook is based on the 1883 public domain text. Produced and narrated by Doushu, with AI assistance.