Unabridged complete with 74 original illustrations by Louis Rhead the wellknown childrens book illustrator.Treasure Island a coming of age novel is perhaps the best adventure story of all time. It is certainly the quintessential pirate tale and together with its many movie adaptations it has created our idea of the pirate world treasure maps with an X the one legged pirate the parrot on the shoulder the eyepatch the black spot and even phrases like shiver my timbers and the captains eternal songampampnbspFifteen men on the dead mans chestampampnbspampampnbspYohoho and a bottle of rumDrink and the devil had done for the restampampnbspampampnbspYohoho and a bottle of rumampampnbspThe young Jim Hawkins is hired by an old seadog Billy Bones to look out for a sailor with one leg. Despite this precaution Bones is found dead in suspicious circumstances.