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Newell Convers Wyeth, American artist: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1911)

N.C. Wyeth illustrated the 1911 version of Robeert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Treasure details the adventures of a young boy by the name of Jim Hawkins who leaves his home to hunt for the buried treasure of Pirate Captain Flint with the crew of the Hispaniola. While traveling, Jim discovers that the ship's cook, Long John Silver, is secretly former member of Captain Flint's crew who has infiltrated the crew of the Hispaniola with his fellow pirates to steal the treasure for themselves. What ensues is a battle between Jim the crew of the Hispanola, and Silver and the crew of Captain Flint's pirates. At the start of the story, Jim is a niave boy who's  both excited and sad to leave behind his childhood home and mother to go off on an adventure for buried treasure, but as the story unfolds, Jim is thrust into a dangerous situation where he grows into a brave and resoursful man who faces off against pirates inorder to save himself and his crew. Through Jim, Robert Louis Stevenson crafts an exciting coming of age story that serves both to entertain young boys, and to make them desire to grow up and explore the world around them