He was accompanied by his wife and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Stevenson wrote the novel Treasure Island in April 1881, when he was traveling across Switzerland amidst his failing health due to his tuberculosis. It is considered a climax of a then-popular adventure that included shipwrecked or marooned characters confronted by treasure-seeking pirates or angry natives. Treasure Island is an adventurous novel of “piracy” and “buried gold,” flawlessly presented with atmosphere, character, and action, interwoven to gear one another.
Climax: Crew finds the treasure missing in the location given in the map.
In the fight between good and evil, one could see a clear picture of pirates’ life. Set in the days of exploration and piracy, it narrates Jim Hawkins’ quest for unearthing the treasure of the evil pirate – Captain Flint. He has published it under the pseudonym “Captain George North.” Later it was published in book form in 1883. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel ‘Treasure Island’ was originally published as a serial from October 1881 to January 1882 under the title ‘The Sea-Cook’, or ‘Treasure Island’ in the Young Folks magazine.
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