This book starts its journey with BookCrossing from Delphi, Greece
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" Fifteen men on the dead man's chest --Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Upon finding a map in his parent's inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim's swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure - where his own bravery is put to the test and he discovers much about friendship, loyalty and betrayal. "


~~~~~~To the person who found this book:~~~~~~

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If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. Drop a few lines on where and how you found this book and what you thought of it. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, I encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold.

This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, although I would love you to read and then share it. You can pass it on someone you know or release it once again in the wild, leaving it on a park bench, a phone booth, a hostel lobby...wherever you think it's suitable for the book to continue its journey. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it.

I hope you enjoy the book!

Since I was a child, I've read Treasure Island many times, first in Greek, my native language and then in English, the original language it was written, always enjoying it very much.

A modern reader may find the characters cliché and somewhat one-dimensional, the story simplistic and the plot twists not that convincing, some elements of English patriotism and sense of pride outdated, but still...

The author, possessing a great imagination and been well-traveled, managed in his relatively short life to give us very beautiful (and varied) books, influencing our collective memory and culture very much. So much that maybe today when we read the original novels, they might not have such an impact to us, their themes and traits been familiar already...

Certainly Stevenson got inspired by his surroundings and his own life to write Treasure Island, and certainly many elements in his books are not new...
I imagine him one day meeting a sailor with an amputated leg, or gazing at ships in harbors and spotting a talking parrot in the the shoulder of an old salt or frequenting naval taverns and mingling with ships' crews, hearing old seafaring tales of pirates, wars and hidden treasures while travelling his self (After all, the premise of the book takes place decades before his time)...

Nevertheless, he is perhaps the first author who successfully put these elements to paper and created stories full of adventures, places and behaviors that seemed exotic to most people of his time and still fascinate today...
...and on a personal note, all in all each person feels a great fascination, tenderness, attraction in some readings even if they cannot explain exactly why. And feel a need to return to them again and again. This is 1000% true for me and Treasure Island.

I hope future readers will enjoy it too : )

PS: This is a copy I obtained brand-new for BookCrossing purposes.

This book got itchy feet and wants to trot the globe. So for a start it came with me on Naxos Island. And then... Who knows?

Good Luck my book and Don't forget to write your news from time to time!

Released on the beautiful Glyfada beach!