{"id":554,"date":"2009-03-25T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2009-03-25T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:37:14","slug":"treasure-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/storybooks\/treasure-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Pirates\/PiratesTitle.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Treasure                        Island <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Pirates\/islandcv.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"216\" height=\"310\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The single greatest                        and most famous pirate book of all time is Treasure Island,                        by the Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. (1850 &#8211;                        1894).<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson introduced                        all the elements that are now part of the pirate myth: treasure                        maps, buried gold, parrots, wooden legs, eye patches, and                        deserted islands.<\/p>\n<p>The book tells                        a young boy&#8217;s story of how his normal existence is shattered                        when a mysterious stranger appears at his father&#8217;s<br \/>\ninn. A treasure map soon leads the boy on a sea voyage that                        results in treacherous pirates trying to mutiny and steal                        the treasure. There is a harrowing story of the boy&#8217;s survival                        on a deserted island. The book is much more than a pirate                        story. It deals with our innate longing for mystery and                        the adventure of learning to rely on one&#8217;s own abilities.                        Treasure Island is still one of the most popular books in                        the world.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Pirates\/TreasureIslandMap.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"595\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">The map                        of Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson said that it                        was the<br \/>\ndrawing of this map that inspired him to write the novel.<\/span><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/storybooks\/pirates-from-books-to-film\/\">Next:                          Pirates from Books to Film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasure Island The single greatest and most famous pirate book of all time is Treasure Island, by the Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. (1850 &#8211; 1894). Stevenson introduced all the elements that are now part of the pirate myth: treasure maps, buried gold, parrots, wooden legs, eye patches, and deserted islands. The book tells a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions\/583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}