Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth
TREASURE ISLAND: Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
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( July 30, 2017)
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.