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Robert Louis Stevenson

November 14, 2011 by · Comments Off on Robert Louis Stevenson 

Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He rose to fame because of his first novel, Treasure Island. That book was inspired by a real treasure buried on November 13, 1750, at Norman Island in the BVI exactly one hundred years before the Scottish author was born.

In his new book, Treasure Island: The Untold Story, American author and historian, John Amrhein, Jr., documents an amazing tale of revenge, greed, high seas adventure, and buried treasure. In Stevenson’s book, his treasure map says that the treasure was buried on August 1, 1750, by a Captain James Flint. In real-life, the treasure was buried by Owen Lloyd born in Flintshire, Wales. He and his peg-legged brother, John, engineered a plan to sail away with over a hundred chests of Spanish treasure from a disabled Spanish galleon at Ocracoke, North Carolina. Unfortunately John was captured but Owen made it safely to the Virgin Islands.

This daring theft challenged the peace that had just been established between England and Spain. The embassies of Denmark and The Netherlands were also involved as the errant governors of St. Thomas and St. Eustatius helped themselves to treasure that had been seized from Owen Lloyd and his associates. The aftermath of the theft sent ripples across the Atlantic for the next fifteen years.

Robert Louis Stevenson

November 13, 2010 by · Comments Off on Robert Louis Stevenson 

Robert Louis Stevenson, Yo ho ho: Google is celebrating the 160th birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson with a special drawing for Oceania.

Google celebrates birthday 160, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson with a “doodle” in New Zealand and Australia their home pages.

The California-based company has a tradition of holding special events by drawing doodles detailing the letters of his name. More than 700 have been designed at the international level.

The drawing contains new pictures of the famous novel by Stevenson, Treasure Island.

The first letter G can be seen on the board of pirates, in the compass of the map, another S in the mountains, G on the boat, L on the flag of the pirates and the end point E on the treasure box.

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 and was a famous novelist and travel writer. His most famous works include Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Stevenson spent years sailing the Pacific, and spent time in Tahiti and Samoa and New Zealand.

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