One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas­ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: "If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day." But more than just a children’s classic, the novel is considered to be one of the greatest feats of storytelling in the English...