A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

Features novels, short stories, essays, travel, poems and ballads. This is a selection based on the importance, variety and interest of Stevenson's writings, choosing the most characteristic in each field. An artistic biography, which evaluates the man and his work in honest terms, rather than in light of the Stevenson legend.

Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...