Jim Hawkins' life changes forever from the day a sailor enters his father's inn singing: 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' When the sailor dies, Jim discovers a map in his room that leads to a treasure and sets off with two of his friends and the one-legged pirate Long John Silver to find the treasure buried on a distant island. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]