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"A grand adventure"
Now a young adult, former treasure hunter Jim Hawkins
manages the Admiral Benbow Inn following his renovation of
the former dive. However, the twenty-one years old Jim
spends a lot of time boasting about his island adventures
over a drink or two. Grace Richardson hears about the
brave Jim's incredible escapades with pirates on the high
seas and Treasure Island. She, accompanied by her son,
beseeches Jim to find the pirate Joseph Tait, whose last
known residence is Treasure Island. Jim rejects her plea, but that fails to stop menacing thugs
from harassing her and him forcing the retired adventurer
back into the action hero role. This time Jim kills a
noble, and is forced to flee for his life when the law
accuses him of murder. Accompanied by Grace and her
preadolescent son, they begin a trek that will take Jim
back to the "accursed island" that he last stepped on a
decade ago in search of the meanest of Long John Silver's
former associates. THE CURSE OF TREASURE ISLAND is fast-paced and loaded with
action, starring a mature Jim as a young adult whose
potential relationship with Grace adds a romantic flavor to
the adventure. The story line is very exciting, but the
flaw remains that men risk their lives, but none know why
as Grace keeps secrets that everyone seems to allow her to
do while they blithely venture to death or near death.
Still Francis Bryan furbishes a strong tale that pays
homage to the grandmaster Robert Louis Stevenson while
setting the seafaring further adventures of Jim and company. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted May 11, 2002
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Never out of print since its first publication in book form
in 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a
thrilling narrative of pirates, hidden treasure, and peril
on the high seas that is as popular with adults as with
children. Here, at last, is a worthy sequel, written in the
same spirit as Stevenson's brilliant original. Now a sturdy young man of twenty-one, Jim Hawkins, the
cabin boy who narrated Treasure Island, is content with his
quiet life as landlord of the family inn. Nothing could
induce him to return to the accursed island. But when a
mysterious and beautiful stranger comes begging for his
immediate assistance in locating the pirate Joseph Tait,
Jim is powerless to resist. Last seen marooned on Treasure
Island, Tait was the roughest pirate of the lot. What could
a woman of Grace Richardson's elegance and refinement want
with such a reprobate? The answer leads Jim back to the
South Seas, to violence, mystery, and dangers he never
dared imagine. A brilliant re-creation of the high style and spellbinding
suspense of the original, The Curse of Treasure Island is
destined to become a classic in its own right.
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