EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

55 V. The Seafaring Man with One Leg If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day: So be it, and fall on! R. L. Stevenson As has been mentioned, Stevenson’s original title for his story was ‘The Sea Cook’, a title, which it must be admitted, fails to make the pulse race. The story made its first appearance in 1881 as a serial in the children’s paper, Young Folks , under the pseudonym, ‘Cap‐ tain George North’. The editor, James Henderson, changed the title to ‘Treasure Island; or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola’. The serial appears to have received only mild approval from readers —it probably didn’t help that there was only one illustration for the whole serial!—and Stevenson was most disappointed. How‐ ever, he needn’t have worried unduly because, when it was eventu‐ THIS PAGE: Long John Silver has had many visual interpretations from different illustrators. At the bottom left we see José Luis Salinas’ version (along with Jim Hawkins), and bottom right Peter Jackson’s version as an old salt with rotten teeth. Salinas could only draw handsome people.