"Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...

After Chesterton’s book on Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1927, Edmund Gosse sent Chesterton a letter. Gosse had been a friend of Stevenson and one of his great champions. We can almost hear Gosse weeping with joy and gratitude as he writes that Chesterton really understands Stevenson, unlike any other modern critic. Just as Chesterton had rescued Charles Dickens from the scholars and intellectuals who were bent on dismissing him, so

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"When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at the Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. ... Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its core values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister,...

This book chronicles the author's return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism and time in rehab left him numb to life. He is now married to his sweetheart and father of two young boys. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, he follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Gilberts, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another as he confronts his newfound...

Swinnerton's thoughtful overview of the work of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) discusses the Scottish novelist's life, but focuses more on his writing-devoting individual chapters to his travel books, essays, poems, plays, short stories, novels, and romances.

"A portrait of the fascinating, unusual and fruitful creative partnership between Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson"--

"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island,...

As a young Robert Louis Stevenson visits a Scottish lighthouse built by his great-grandfather, his father tells him a story of pirates and lighthouses. Includes bioliographic information on Robert Louis Stevenson.

A poem inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters describes how the author and his wife survived a stormy ocean voyage with ashipload of exotic animals.