Jim Hawkins, the cabin-boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countrygide near his friends Dr Livesey and Squire Trelawney, and grew up to become landlord of the family inn. He swore that 'Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island'.

At the end of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's gripping adventure story, the Hispaniola sailed away with 'great heaps of coin...bars of gold...doubloons and double guineas'. But some treasure had to be left behind -as were three surviving pirates, deliberately marooned, Their leader, Long John Silver,had changed sides in time to save his skin, and on the voyage home to Bristol slipped ashore, helping himself to some of thehoard as he vanished.

Jim Hawkins, the cabin-boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countrygide near his friends Dr Livesey and Squire Trelawney, and grew up to become landlord of the family inn. He swore that 'Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island'.

But one day, ten years after his return,a beautiful stranger and her young son come looking for Jim Hawkins, and he is led back to the south seas, to even greater danger than before, to violence and a mystery...

This thrilling sequel to one. of the greatest adventure stories ever told is written in the same spirit and with due homage to the wonderful original. The author's name, Francis Bryan, is a pseudonym.Treasure Island, under the title The Sea Cook,was first published as a magagine serial throughout the winter of 1881-2. When it appeared in book form in 1883, it established Stevenson's reputation. He had written it during a raiW holiday in Scotland, partly for the amusement of his American stepson,Lloyd Osbourne, then aged twelve although Stevenson insisted the book belonged as appropriately to grown-ups as to childrenl.

He was proved right: His characters became instantly famous and passed for ever into pular cultue, especially Long John Silver vgith his wooden crutch, his greeting,Jim, lad', and his parrot, Cap'n Flint, whocackled Pieces of Eight!

Never out of print, Treasure Island sells thousands of copies worldwide every year.Among. Stevenson's contempgraries it received wide acclaim for its memorable characterisation,clear language,realistic atmosphere and rattling good narrative.

Prologue: Grown to Man's Estate

PART ONE: THE BRECHT FACE oF DANGER

1 A Mysterious Arrival

2 Violent Encounters

3 Under Siege Again

4 The Majesty of the Law

5 Fugitives All

6 The Night Riders

PART TWO: To TRAVEL HOPEFULLY

7 My Clever Uncle

8 Old Friends Are Best

9 The Hispaniola

10 The Black Brig

11 Ocean Waves

12 Treasure Island Again

PART THREE: BLACK AND BLACKER

13 A Mysterious Disappearance

14 Our Difficulties Increase

15 The Captain's Ruse

16 I Argue My Case

17 The Smell of Death

18 The Pit of Evil

PART TOUR: THE IMPENITENT THIEF

19 The Savagery of Man

20 Escape Into Peril

21 A Safety of Sorts

22 The Jaws of Danger

23 Dry Land Once More

24 And We Meet Again

PART FIVE: GENTLEMEN OF SPIRIT

25 A Motley Crew

26 In Sinister Times

27 A Fearful Reunion

28 The Game's Afoot

PART SIX: LET THE BLOW FALL

29 Steel Meets Fire

30 Dishonour Among Thieves

31 Of Deepest Inhumanity

32 The Faces of Our Enemies

33 The Wonder of Battle

34 The Last, Longest Moments

Epilogue: A Bed of Roses?