Treasure Island (Including the History Behind the Book)
Pirate Mythology, Mutiny, Castaway Survival, and the Origins of Maritime AdventureBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Captain Charles Johnson
Length32h 56m
About this audiobook
Treasure Island (Including the History Behind the Book) places a seminal adventure narrative in conversation with the documentary, fictional, and mythmaking traditions from which modern pirate lore emerged. Its central tale of maps, mutiny, buried wealth, and shifting loyalties is complemented by historical materials that illuminate the maritime world behind its enduring emblems. Moving between brisk coming-of-age adventure, travel narrative, moral fable, and quasi-historical chronicle, the volume reveals how the figure of the pirate became at once a social outlaw, a commercial threat, and a subject of popular romance. The collection brings together Robert Louis Stevenson's late-Victorian reimagining of seafaring adventure with Daniel Defoe and Captain Charles Johnson, writers associated with formative accounts of criminality, commerce, travel, and piracy. Their works emerge from distinct but connected literary cultures: the early eighteenth-century expansion of print, empire, and Atlantic trade, and the nineteenth-century revival of romance and boyhood adventure. Read together, these voices show how purported history and imaginative fiction continually shaped one another, preserving records of maritime violence while transforming them into narrative archetypes. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking to understand Treasure Island not as an isolated classic but as part of a larger history of pirate representation. It offers an accessible yet intellectually rich opportunity to compare styles, historical assumptions, and narrative pleasures, while tracing the dialogue between fact, legend, and literary invention.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length32 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Lost Pirate Republic
2Treasure Island (Including the History Behind the Book)
3Treasure Island
4Part I. The Old Buccaneer
5Chapter I. The Old Sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
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6Chapter II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
7Chapter III. The Black Spot
8Chapter IV. The Sea Chest
9Chapter V. The Last of the Blind Man
10Chapter VI. The Captain’s Papers
11Part II. The Sea Cook
12Chapter VII. I Go to Bristol
13Chapter VIII. At the Sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
14Chapter IX. Powder and Arms
15Chapter X. The Voyage
16Chapter XI. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
17Chapter XII. Council of War
18Part III. My Shore Adventure
19Chapter XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began
20Chapter XIV. The First Blow
21Chapter XV. The Man of the Island
22Part IV. The Stockade
23Chapter XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
24Chapter XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
25Chapter XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
26Chapter XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
27Chapter XX. Silver’s Embassy
28Chapter XXI. The Attack
29Part V. My Sea Adventure
30Chapter XXII. How My Sea Adventure Began
31Chapter XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
32Chapter XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
33Chapter XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
34Chapter XXVI. Israel Hands
35Chapter XXVII. 'Pieces of Eight'
36Part VI. Captain Silver
37Chapter XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
38Chapter XXIX. The Black Spot Again
39Chapter XXX. On Parole
40Chapter XXXI. The Treasure Hunt — Flint’s Pointer
41Chapter XXXII. The Treasure Hunt — The Voice Among the Trees
42Chapter XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
43Chapter XXXIV. And Last
44The True Story Behind The Novel
45The Preface
46Introduction
47Chap. I. Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
48Chap. II. Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
49Chap. III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
50Chap. IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
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