Treasure Island
Classical Stories · No. 86 — A map with an X, and a one-legged cook you can't help liking.
- Classical Stories
- 49 min
- Ages 15–99
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
Young Jim Hawkins helps his mother run a lonely seaside inn, where an old sailor lodges in fear of some pursuer. When the man dies, Jim finds in his sea-chest a map marking buried treasure on a distant island, and joins a voyage to find it aboard the Hispaniola. But the ship's cheerful one-legged cook, Long John Silver — friendly, clever, and beloved by all — is secretly the leader of a crew of pirates plotting mutiny once the gold is found. Jim, overhearing the plot hidden in an apple barrel, must help the honest few outwit the pirates on the island, survive marooned madmen and midnight fights, and match his wits and courage against the most charming and most dangerous man he has ever met — a villain he can never quite bring himself to hate.
Why it's worth a listen
A boy at a quiet seaside inn finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea-chest and sails off to a far island to dig up buried gold — with a crew that turns out to be secretly packed with pirates, led by the smiling, peg-legged ship's cook, Long John Silver. The book that invented most of what we picture when we picture pirates: the map, the X, the parrot, the black spot. A thrilling coming-of-age adventure about courage and the hard art of reading people.
A question to keep
How do you tell a friend from a danger when the most charming person aboard is the most dangerous of all?
Chapters
- The Sea-Chest and the Black Spot
- The One-Legged Cook of Bristol
- The Bottom of the Apple Barrel
- The Island of Ghosts and Guns
- The Battle for the Hispaniola
- The Empty Grave and the Golden Escape
- A Question to Keep