When a mysterious sailor enters his fathers inn looking for lodgings and rum, young Jack Hawkins finds himself involved in a high seas adventure full of pirates, maroons, distant islands and treasure. But just who is the one legged man that the sailors were so afraid of?
This widely loved classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883, is one of the most dramatised in literature and is credited with forming much of the public perception of pirates and adventures on the high seas.
Narrated by Michael Ward.
