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Der junge Jim Hawkins findet im Nachlass des Piraten Bill Bones die lange verloren geglaubte Karte zur Schatzinsel. Zusammen mit seinen besten Freunden begibt sich Jim auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, mit dem Ziel, den versteckten Schatz zu finden. Doch in die Crew haben sich auch der beruhmt-beruchtigte Pirat Long John Silver und seine Manner eingeschlichen. Jim braucht einen guten Plan, um die Piraten zu uberlisten und den Schatz bergen zu konnen.show more Nr pagini: 92 pagesFormat: 146 x 211 x...

Als der angesehene Arzt Dr. Jekyll sich zunehmend mit dem mysteriosen Mr. Hyde beschaftigt, werden seine Freunde immer besorgter. Wer ist Hyde und wieso meiden ihn alle, die ihn kennenlernen? Stevensons Schauerroman um das Bosen im Menschen wird hier mit derselben Spannung und Dramatik wie im Original nacherzahlt.show moreISBN: 9783852721521Nr pagini: 102 pagesFormat: 149 x 211 x 7mm | 187gAnul aparitiei: 01 Oct 2009...

The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is descri...

The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in the waters of the Pacific. A lively curiosity stimulated his observations of distant places and unknown people: and this selection from his travel writings bears the imprint of a generous and plucky...

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightenin...