Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Jasper Britton

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion, Dr. Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny, and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog, and, of course, the charming buccaneer Long John Silver. The action and adventure never falter, and the spell of this enduring story is sustained until the very last word.

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Critic reviews

"This best-ever adventure story...has the same mesmeric ability to keep you hanging on every word.... It has all that's required of a ripping yarn." ( The Guardian)

excellent voice acting

Great adventure book, and the narrator provides one of the best voice acting I've heard.

Tremendous fun and a great listen

Any additional comments?

The narration by Jasper Britton is spectacular. He captures the young fresh voice of Jim Hawkins, regal voice of the doctor, measured voice of the captain as effortlessly as he drawls the gravelly melodic tones of Long John Silver and his sea dogs. This is a classic story of murder, mischief, mutiny and daring do all in the name of buried pirate treasure. The pacing is superb, the action thrilling, but never beyond belief. With Jim as our guide we get to experience the best of all the awe and fear while maintaining our sense of adventure. Tremendous fun and a great listen

It is an old classic.

I'm glad I finally was able to read this. But I felt the narrator got out of control a few times and was yelling a bit too much and much too loudly. The story was old and not ad fulfilling as other books but again I can see why it is a classic from that time period.

Brilliantly narrated

I highly recommend this version of Treasure Island. The narration was simply brilliant; it couldn’t have been done better. The narrator does a masterful job with different voices and accents for each character, and he even very subtly changes the voice of young Jim Hawkins, the narrator, to reflect his growing maturity as the story goes along. Naxos Audiobooks are always well done, but this one takes the cake in my opinion!

One of the best

Jasper Britton’s reading of Treasure Island is a delight. I loved the different voices for the characters. He truly drew you into the story and made a great book really come alive.

A Savory and Exciting Treasure Island

I read Treasure Island as a kid and loved it and just finished listening to Jasper Britton reading it forty years later and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Britton is a wonderful reader! He reads the main narration by young Jim Hawkins with engaging youthful enthusiasm and the voices of the other characters with great variety, among them Billy Bones' paranoid alcoholic bullying, Doctor Livesey's educated and measured eloquence, Blind Pew's querulous menace and outrage, Squire Trelawney's good-natured aristocratic bluster, Long John Silver's roguish friendliness, shameless guile, and eruptions of murderous rage, Captain Smollett's honest fortitude and command, Ben Gunn's cracked craftiness, and Cap'n Flint's wicked parroting of "Pieces of eight!" I felt as if the book were being read by a full cast, including one parrot who had seen too much of wickedness.

Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is a true boys' adventure classic, filled with vivid and concise descriptions, exotic settings, suspenseful action, perfect surprises, savory conversation, spicy humor, and a philosophical depth lacking in many stories of its genre. Stevenson does not romanticize his "gentlemen of fortune" pirates: they are wasteful, fickle, ignorant, violent, superstitious, and treacherous, and hence very human.

By thunder! Don't be as craven as a weevil in a biscuit: listen to Jasper Britton's reading of Treasure Island.

Amazing reading

Reader Jasper Britton breathes new life into Stevenson's classic tale. Listening to this version of Treasure Island was an absolute blast.

Classic story, well narrated

The narrator of this story does an incredible job of bringing it to life. Makes you wish it was a longer story.

Childhood memories

I read this as a child and this was wonderful and brought back memories. Thanks

perfect

The reading is wonderful in capturing the voices of all of the characters and all of the accents / it is a story that is known but still great