Treasure Island
11/14/1883 AD published
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Robert Louis Stevenson 19th century Scottish no...
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Treasure Island Pirate adventure novel b...
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Stevenson's map of Treasure Island Map of Treasure Island from the 1883 edition by Cassel. "I sent in my manuscript, and the map along with it, to Messrs. Cassell. The proofs came, they were corrected, but I heard nothing of the map. I wrote and asked; was told it had never been received, and sat aghast. It is one thing to draw a map at random, set a scale in one corner of it at a venture, and write up a story to the measurements. It is quite another to have to examine a whole book, make an inventory of all the allusions contained in it, and with a pair of compasses, painfully design a map to suit the data. I did it; and the map was drawn again in my father’s office, with embellishments of blowing whales and sailing ships, and my father himself brought into service a knack he had of various writing, and elaborately FORGED the signature of Captain Flint, and the sailing directions of Billy Bones. But somehow it was never Treasure Island to me." (Robert Louis Stevenson, My First Book: ‘Treasure Island’, First published in the Idler, August 1894 .
Treasure Island Serialization
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated by George Wylie Hutchinson (1894)
From Chums serialization of “Treasure Island,” which ran from 29 Aug 1894- 2 Jan 1895
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