When young Jim
Hawkins decides to follow a map to a buried treasure, he must befriend or
outsmart memorable characters such as pirate Long John Silver, captain
Billy Bones and island man Ben Gunn. Mutinous plans, mysterious deaths
and a tangle of double crosses keep Jim guessing all the way to the
prize.
This may not be the best adventures novel I ever read, but bear with me : I grew up with it ! The story, the films, the novel, the adventure, the sea - pirates !!!!
When last week, I (finally) finished watching all the seasons of Black Sails (great show, by the way, a lot grittier than Treasure island), I wanted some more pirates so of course, as Black Sails was the prequel to the novel, I re-read the novel.
I'm from Brittany in France, many people in my family used to work in a harbour (Brest) when they were not sailors themselves and went touring around the world (my uncle, so lucky !), I've always loved the sea and I've always been a huge fan of sailsboats. They are so majestic ! When I went to visit Penzance in Cornwall years ago and saw so few traces of pirates, I was highly, highly disappointed. As a kid, I used to watch a tv show called Smuggler and fell in love with Jack Vincent, I read The Jamaica Inn, I read John Edward Trelawney's memoirs and devoured several books by Michel le Bris (probably unknown to you, but a Breton specialist of adventurers in general and Robert Louis Stevenson in particular ; he also created the Etonnants voyageurs festival = amazing travellers, which allies literature and... travel), I lately watched Poldark (with smugglers)... But I'm digressing.
All this to say : don't expect me to write an accurate and precise review, me loving this book is purely sentimental ! Besides, you all probably know the story and thousands of reviews have been written already if not more. I really enjoyed re-reading it, no regret. (PS : Squire Trelawney is a complete idiot but a good shot).
And as I've been suggested on Goodreads, I watched this and it was fun ^^
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