Review | Friday 30 October 2009
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson & John Lawrence
This beautiful, new, full-text edition of the Stevenson classic that shaped our childhood ideas of pirates comes just in time for Christmas. It is an impressive, robust and bold edition (as befits the content), with dramatic vinyl-cut illustrations by John Lawrence that bring to life the rough-and-ready period of seafaring derring-do. Let these evocative new illustrations – which feel carved from a past of wood, tar and lantern light – bring to life young Jim Hawkins’ adventure of a lifetime.