1883 novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson. Innkeeper's son
Jim Hawkins finds a
treasure map in a chest belonging to Captain
Billy Bones, a deceased lodger. He shows the map to Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney, whom he trusts, and they resolve to mount an
expedition to the
island shown on the
map and locate the
buried treasure there. Trelawney foolishly hires on a
sailor named
Long John Silver as ship's cook as well as several men Silver recommends to him - Trelawney not knowing that they are former shipmates of Bones, and
pirates all. Hawkins and Silver develop a strong bond, but when he overhears the pirates' plans to mutiny, the peaceful expedition turns into a series of pitched battles for the
ship, the
island, and the
treasure. In the end the heroes prevail with the help of marooned sailor
Ben Gunn.
This book rocks.