{"product_id":"the-annotated-treasure-island-9781937075019","title":"The Annotated Treasure Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published as a serialized children s story in 1881 1882  Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island has become an enduring classic. It has all the elements of a great adventure story: a plot full of twists and turns  an escalating sense of treachery and impending disaster  and a quintessential villain. Teenager Jim Hawkins finds a map titled Treasure Island in the belongings of a stricken lodger at the Admiral Benbow Inn in 1750s England. He soon finds himself aboard the schooner Hispaniola with a crew of disguised pirates headed to the Caribbean on a quest to find buried treasure. Long John Silver  the peg-legged cook  is the leader of this wretched crew. He is both engaging and ruthless  feared by even his barbarous accomplices  and a shape-shifter  pretending to be Jim s good friend and enemy  secretly plotting a mutiny. When mutiny begins  Jim must save the day. This beloved adventure story is pure fiction but fiction well grounded in historical and geographical reality. In The Annotated Treasure Island  editor and researcher Simon Barker-Benfield meticulously and lovingly annotates this voyage  offering crucial factual information  a sociopolitical context  and clear technical explanations that bring you closer to the action. Lavishly illustrated with pictures of nautical equipment  parts of ships  and period maps  The Annotated Treasure Island brings the seafaring vernacular to life. You ll learn about blocks  backstays  and shrouds. And you ll see Jim and the crew handle the Hispaniola  whether it s the simple chore of raising the anchor which in a similar  real vessel could require three hours -worth of hauling in a very slimy cable six inches at a time or the difficulty and meaning of warping and putting a man in the chains in order to take depth soundings. The story illustrations by Louis Rhead (1857-1926) deftly draw out the escalating dramatic tension. Would all the risk and hardship have been worth it? Just how much treasure was the crew after? What could one have bought with 700 000 pounds sterling in the 1700s? Even that question is answered in this newly annotated edition: it would have been enough to buy and outfit a fleet of eleven 104-gun battleships of the period. Seven hundred thousand pounds sterling was serious money  enough money that some men would do almost anything to get it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665817100341,"sku":"ByrdShop_193707501X","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781937075019_e3296caa-6e02-40be-82c5-7661c4592ec0.jpg?v=1782408387","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-annotated-treasure-island-9781937075019","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}