Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Neil Hunt

If you happen to find a map in a dead buccaneer's sea trunk, you can't very well ignore it, not if you are Jim Hawkins and his friends Dr. Livesey, Captain Smollett, and Squire Trelawney! But even with a map, buried treasures are not easy things to come by. At the start of his grand adventure, setting sail on the good ship Hispaniola, the young Hawkins is a hesitant, querulous boy, too easily beguiled by his own fancy.

By journey's end he will have faced murder, mutiny, and mayhem - and in the process, become a man. Narrator Neil Hunt brings to life the characters Robert Louis Stevenson made so memorable: Black Dog, Blind Pew, Billy Bones, George Merry, Israel Hands, and Ben Gunn.

©1988 Recorded Books, LLC (P)1988 Recorded Books, LLC

An outstanding reader

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Neil Hunt does an outstanding job with the characters' voices in his reading of Treasure Island. Before purchasing this particular unabridged reading, I sampled perhaps a dozen of the options available at Audible. Most of them I was able to rule out because of poor audio quality. I only hesitated about Hunt's reading because the narrative sections in the sample he seemed to read a trifle faster than was necessary, as though in a great haste to tell the story. But having come to the end of the book, I was so delighted with his handling of the dialogue between the characters that I can see I made the right choice in buying this recording. The story is a classic, of course, and while nothing profound, it is a great deal of fun. I highly recommend this audio book.

Timeless Classic

The first pirate story and a good one. Neil Hunt does a great job in the narration.

Pieces of eight

Not a bad story. Some of the words and verbiage clearly denote note the time when it was written. A nice variation from what I usually read.

Wonderful classic

I somehow missed this one back in school in the 70s & 80s. Great listen. I'm glad I found it.

a must-read classic. well preformed

a must-read classic that has been expertly read for you by a talented narrator. enjoy

Incredible narrative talent.

the narrator was absolutely amazing particularly in the part of long john silver. highly recommend.

Makes you feel like a young lad!

Great narration to a classic adventure story. Fun to listen. Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!

Silver

I liked Jim and I didn’t really like merry at all but the story was really interesting and great.

Great story great narration

One of the best I’ve listened to on audible. An utter classic and a joy to experience.

A classic that is still a worthy story

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I really only grabbed this because my 9th grader was going to read it as part of his Honors English class (it was on the list.) Unfortunately, he found the 19th century Kings English a bit too daunting and didn't know what they were talking about half the time. He ended up reading something else. However, I thought it was fun and stuck with it. I of course have known of the book "forever," and I think I saw a movie base on it, way-back-when; but I never read the book.

So now I have read (or listened to) the book and I am glad I did. They story still holds up and was fun. It was also fun comparing it to Treasure Planet. It actually perked my interest enough that I watched a few different movie versions that I could find.