Tour Scotland Video Treasure Island Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Treasure Island book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson, a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella, née Balfour. He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson was to change the spelling of " Lewis " to " Louis ", and in 1873 he dropped " Balfour ". His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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