This action-packed adventure established the classic pirate story as it was written for more than a century afterward, and it made the literary reputation of its young author, Robert Louis Stevenson.

When he attends a dying patron of his family’s boarding
house, young Jim Hawkins has no idea that the man
was once a pirate, or that the man’s possessions include
a map that will lead whoever has it to the island where
the notorious buccaneer, Captain Flint, buried his
treasure. Jim and his guardians hire a boat to sail to
the island, unaware that crew they have hired includes
many members of Flint’s pirate band, among them
former quartermaster Long John Silver, and that they
hope to claim the treasure for their own.