Recommended by
- Richard Branson — Listed in Richard Branson's own 'My Top 65 Books To Read In A Lifetime' published on Virgin.com source ↗
- Walt Disney — One of the stories he said he especially liked in his school English class source ↗
Summary
Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel: a boy, a treasure map, a ship full of mutineers, and the one-legged cook Long John Silver. It codified the pirate story and the coming-of-age quest that so many later stories borrow from.
For founders
For founders, Treasure Island is formative reading about adventure and appetite for risk — the kind of childhood book that instills the willingness to sail toward something dangerous. Richard Branson placed it in his lifetime top 65; Walt Disney counted it among the stories that shaped him. A reminder that boldness has a literary origin.