It is July 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola an inn kept by Jim Hawkins & his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries running errands for his father & listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas of curses murder & revenge black spots & buried treasure
- & of a man with a wooden leg. Late one night a mysterious girl named Natty arrives on the river with a request for Jim from her father
- Long John Silver. Aged & weak but still possessing a strange power the pirate proposes that Jim & Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flints hidden bounty the beautiful bar silver left behind many years before. Silver has chartered a ship & a hardy crew for this purpose whose captain is waiting only for the map now locked away at the Hispaniola. Making haste from London Jim & Natty set off in the footsteps of their fathers their tentative friendship growing stronger day by day. But the thrill of the ocean odyssey gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination for it seems that Treasure Island is not as uninhabited as it once was... Featuring a cast of noble seamen murderous pirates & stories of love valour & terrible cruelty Silver" is a worthy sequel to " Treasure Island"
- one of the greatest adventure stories ever told
- & a work of extraordinary authenticity & imaginative power from one of Englands greatest writers."