Treasure Island

Name: Treasure Island - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9781474924672
Price: 230.00 ZAR
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Plumbe

Formats & Editions

Hardback

Flexible plastic / vinyl cover

CD standard audio format

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About the book

A map, a ship and a crew of good men - or are they? Jim Hawkins and his friends are hoping to find pirate treasure, but the pirates have not forgotten their captain's hidden gold.

Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English).

1,200 headwords, 3,497 words

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city’s professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.