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This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Ronald Colman hosted an adaptation of the novel on the April 27, 1948, broadcast of Favorite Story. [54] Robert Louis Stevenson. "To Sidney Colvin. Late May 1884", in Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. p. 263.

I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)" and "Always Know Where You Are" are songs performed by Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik for Disney's animated retelling. A version by Bryony Lavery and directed by Polly Findlay was produced at London's Royal National Theatre from December 2014 to April 2015. In this version of the play, Jim is a girl. [51] This production starred rising actor Patsy Ferran as Jim and Doctor Who alumnus Arthur Darvill as Silver. [52] Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation via The Mercury Theatre on the Air in July 1938, with its setting being half in England and half on the Island. The broadcast, which omits "My Sea Adventure", included music by Bernard Herrmann. [53] Stryker, Susan (1996). Gay By the Bay: A history of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. p.30. ISBN 0-8118-1187-5.Treasure Island" (1988) — an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks starring Alvin as Jim Hawkins, Dave as Long John Silver, Simon as Dr. Livesey, Theodore as Squire Trelawney, and Brittany as Mrs. Hawkins. Stevenson conceived the idea for the novel based on a map of an imaginary, romantic island which he drew with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, during a holiday in Braemar, Scotland in the summer of 1881. He had clearly started work by 25 August, writing to a friend, "If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day. Will you be surprised to learn that it is about Buccaneers, that it begins in the Admiral Benbow public house on the Devon coast, that it's all about a map and a treasure and a mutiny and a derelict ship... It's quite silly and horrid fun – and what I want is the best book about Buccaneers that can be had." [3] There have been over 24 major stage adaptations made, though the number of minor adaptations remains countless. [48] The story is also a popular plot and setting for a traditional pantomime wherein Mrs. Hawkins, Jim's mother is the dame.

Small pond in Queen Street Gardens in Edinburgh, said to have been visible from Stevenson's bedroom window in Heriot Row. [21] Characters develop nicely in book two". Otago Daily Times. 18 February 2012 . Retrieved 13 October 2012.Walt Disney's Treasure Island", Four Color #624 (April 1955, Dell Comics) — adapted by John Ushler from Disney's 1950 film adaptation L'Île aux trésors (2007) — a French-British-Hungarian film directed by Alain Berbérian, starring Gérard Jugnot, Alice Taglioni, Vincent Rottiers and Jean-Paul Rouve. For the nearby former Hill Park military cemetery and the NRHP "Quarters 1 Nimitz House", see Yerba Buena Island. Headquarters Building at US Naval Station Treasure Island The island is within the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Zoned elementary schools serving sections of the island include John Yehall Chin ( North Beach) and Sherman ( Marina). [39]

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