By Andrew Motion
A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson’s loved classic—about younger associates and their high-seas experience with harmful pirates and long-lost treasure.
It's nearly 40 years after the occasions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an lodge referred to as the Hispaniola at the English coast together with his son, Jim, and lengthy John Silver has again to England to dwell in obscurity together with his daughter, Natty. Their lives are quiet and unremarkable; their adventures have probably ended.
yet for Jim and Natty, the journey is simply starting. One evening, Natty techniques younger Jim with a proposition: go back to Treasure Island and locate the remainder treasure that their fathers left in the back of such a lot of years prior to. As Jim and Natty set sail of their fathers' footsteps, they quick study that this trip usually are not easy. instantly, they arrive up opposed to murderous pirates, long-held grudges, and greed and deception lurking in each nook. And once they arrive on Treasure Island, they locate poor scenes anticipating them—difficulties which require all their wit in addition to their courage. Nor does the journey finish there, seeing that they must sail homeward again...
Andrew Motion’s sequel—rollicking, heartfelt, and totally brilliant—would make Robert Louis Stevenson proud.
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Rescue has become our only hope. But that hope too has now been dashed. The Siberian wind rifles through our exposed stance and we huddle together and wait. Blaise Agresti In the afternoon I met the families of the two climbers, along with Anne Sauvy, the mountain writer, and her husband, John Wilkinson. I explained to them that we held out little hope. I drew a diagram on the board in the PGHM meeting room explaining the position of the two men and the difficulties which we were having in rescuing them.
I muttered something about too much black pudding for breakfast and being not just spot on. We piled into the car once more. The morning was clear and, as we drove back to the outskirts of Fort William, somebody brought up jocularly 48 the amount of petrol that the car was gobbling. We turned off on the Glen Nevis road and drove up the single-track road to arrive at the car park at the head of the glen. Here the Water Slab, which cascades down the south side of the Ben, sparkled like liquid tinsel in the morning light.
The food is long gone, water only a memory. We are fatigued with cold and stiffened with inactivity. Rescue has become our only hope. But that hope too has now been dashed. The Siberian wind rifles through our exposed stance and we huddle together and wait. Blaise Agresti In the afternoon I met the families of the two climbers, along with Anne Sauvy, the mountain writer, and her husband, John Wilkinson. I explained to them that we held out little hope. I drew a diagram on the board in the PGHM meeting room explaining the position of the two men and the difficulties which we were having in rescuing them.