Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Books -  - 9798584489281 - December 24, 2020
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Treasure Island

QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow-a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 24, 2020
ISBN13 9798584489281
Pages 182
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 11 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  

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