Treasure Island is an adventure classic written by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of 'buccaneers and buried gold'. Its influence is enormous on our own perception of pirates, including treasure maps marked with an 'X', schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. Stevenson stated 'Treasure Island came out of the great Captain Johnson's History of the Notorious Pirates.', which is included in this edition in its entirety with al ...