Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland excitin in November 1850. Treasure Island is one of his most famous Kidnapped, The Black stories. His other stories include Amou, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Master of Ballantrae. Stevenson was ill for much of his life. He went to live in the South Pacific because the weather was warm there. He died in Samoa in December 1894 The Book The story takes place in the middle of the eighteenth a century. It is the story of pirates who stole treasure from ships in the Caribbean. These pirates buried the treasure on an island. The pirates were cruel and violent. They all pieces wanted the treasure. They fought and killed each other, Treasure Island is not a true story, Captain Flint and Long John Silver were not real pirates. Treasure Island is not a real place. But there were pirates in many parts of the world in the eighteenth century. There were pirates in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and the China Seas, Ships went from South America to Spain. These ships carried gold, silver goods the Caribbean. And they were often tracked by pirates. The pirates the sailors and stole everything in the ships