The famous novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson, accompanied by a detailed historical and everyday commentary on maritime affairs in 18th-century England and the “golden age” of piracy. Drawings, prints, maps, pages from books of that time, interactive elements help to recreate the vibrant atmosphere of the era. In England, near Bristol, in the Admiral Benbow tavern, in the room of the old captain, in a sailor’s chest, in a bag of oilcloth, what is known as the beginnings of adventure that every boy knows begins is safely hidden. We will go to England of the 18th century with this book in order to immediately go to sea and on a long voyage to Treasure Island to comprehend all the sea wisdom. Here, behind the text of a familiar novel, an era comes to life, and in the stories of Captain Flint, a terrible story of piracy arises before one’s eyes. Here you can examine every corner of the schooner from saling to kilson, look into Dr. Livesey's chest, recruit a ship's team with Squire Trelawney, learn how to maintain a ship's logbook, plot a course, count piastres and moores, shoot musket and cannons, learn all about Yellow Jack, about reefs and bakstags, about the Dock of executions, about the islands of Dry Tortugas and about the robber nests in the Spanish Sea.
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