Avast, ye scurvy lads and genteel ladies… Here be Pyrates!
Treasure Island is a masterpiece – when it comes to pirate fiction, it is still THE masterpiece, though it was first published in 1883. Treasure Island is the heart of nearly all awesome pirate lore – Hidden Treasure? Peg Legs? Mutiny? X marks the spot? Check. Check. Check plus. Oh yeah, baby, just like that!
Treasure Island covers the adventures of one Jim Hawkins and his adventures aboard the schooner Hispaniola, and their journey to the fabled ‘Skull Island’, where lies the buried treasure of the notorious pirate Captain Flint. On the way, the ship’s cook, Long John Silver, a peg-legged seaman leads a mutiny against the ship’s owners, inhabitants of the sea town Jim Hawkins is from. Over the course of the novel, Jim Hawkins meets a marooned pirate, steals and pilots the Hispaniola, and races the anti-hero Silver for Flint’s treasure.
One of the best novels ever written in the English language – and then it has pirates, to boot.
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
Alex
Jourdan
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