Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
“One more step, Mr Hands,” said I, “and I’ll blow your brains out”‘,,In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins’s parents – and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest – where ‘X’ mar….Read More
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