Silver: Return to Treasure Island
by:
Andrew Motion (author)
THE RIP-ROARING SEQUEL TO THE GREATEST ADVENTURE EVER TOLDAlmost forty years following the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver have seemingly put their maritime adventures to rest. Jim has settled on the English coast with his son Jim, and Silver...
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THE RIP-ROARING SEQUEL TO THE GREATEST ADVENTURE EVER TOLDAlmost forty years following the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver have seemingly put their maritime adventures to rest. Jim has settled on the English coast with his son Jim, and Silver has returned to rural England with his daughter Natty. While their escapades may have ended, for Jim and Natty the adventure is only just beginning. One night, Natty approaches young Jim with a proposition: return to Treasure Island and find the remaining treasure that their fathers left behind. As they set sail in their fathers' footsteps, Jim and Natty cannot imagine what awaits them. Murderous pirates, long-held grudges, noxious greed, and wily deception lurk wickedly in the high seas, and disembarking onto Treasure Island only proves more perilous. Their search for buried treasure leaves every last wit tested and ounce of courage spent. And the adventure doesn't end there, since they still have to make their way home...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307884886 (0307884880)
Publish date: May 14th 2013
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
A sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Silver is an account of a voyage by Jim Hawkins' son and Long John Silver's daughter to the island where their fathers abandoned part of Captain Kidd's treasure, and marooned a handful of bloodthirsty pirates.It's a respectful sequel with plenty ...
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion Silver is a cute and very close-to-canon continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. If you check it out on audio, it is narrated by none other than David Tennant, alias The Tenth Doctor from the TV programme Doctor Who. According to ...
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