Winter: Davos, Switzerland. Stevenson writes one of the most everlasting young boys’ adventure novels of all–time. Pirate Long John Silver – with a parrot on his shoulder – and the other characters of Treasure Island will sail into immortality. Long John Silver, leader of the mutineers, is charming, intelligent, ruthless, manipulative—and totally without a conscience.
Stevenson was Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer.
b. November, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland; d. Samoa