Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
When young Jim Hawkins discovers the map that would lead to Captain Flint’s legendary treasure, he and his friends, Dr Livesey and Mr Trelawney, set out to find the mysterious treasure island. A tale of ‘buccaneers and buried gold’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is the originator of many modern adventure tropes – the iconic X that marks the spot on a treasure map, pirates with wooden legs and eye patches, parrots perched on shoulders, shipwrecks, kidnappings and wild escapes. Join Jim on his epic treasure hunt, as he encounters both foes and friends, and find out whether they end up discovering Flint’s elusive treasure
