Treasure Island

I liked this book written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Jim Hawkins is a young boy whose parents are innkeepers. He meets Billy Bones who lodges at the inn. After Billy drops dead, some pirates come in search of his sea chest. Jim and his mother flee and take an oilskin packet that belonged to Billy with them. While visiting his mother's friend, Dr. Livesey, they discover that Bones had a map showing the treasure stash collected by Captain Flint and they decide to get a crew together to go in search of the loot.

It was published in 1883. There have been over 50 movie and TV versions made. One version was released in 1990 and starred Charlton Heston and Christian Bale. The 2002 film Treasure Planet was also based on this story. Stevenson popularized the ideas that associate pirates with treasure maps, black sail boats, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen.