T reasure Island is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson in which Jim Hawkins embarks on an adventure to find a hidden treasure. A seaman named Bill Bones stays at Jim Hawkins’s father’s inn. When Bill dies, Jim goes through his belongings and finds a treasure map. Jim shows the map to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney. They buy a boat and enlist Long John Silver to put together a crew.