When a weathered old seaman takes a room at his family's quiet seaside inn, young Jim Hawkins finds his ordinary life upended. The stranger is haunted by something, watching the road in fear, and when his secret finally catches up with him, Jim comes into possession of a mysterious map: directions to the buried treasure of a long-dead pirate. Soon Jim is bound for distant waters aboard the Hispaniola, in the company of a crew that includes the charming, one-legged ship's cook, Long John Silver. Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure sets sail with high hopes and a hold full of secrets not everyone aboard intends to share.