The Captain's Map

From Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND

Bo Press, Riverside CA, 2008
 A Map Portfolio
2 1/4" x 1 1/4"

I hadn't read this classic adventure story since childhood. These lines still raise the hair on the back of my neck:

" There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses in red ink - two on the north side of the island, one in the southwest, and, beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the Captain's tottery characters, these words: BULK OF TREASURE HERE"

Besides, there's no better place in fiction to learn how to talk like a pirate.

The portfolio is bound in French marbled paper with an overlay of torn black kid leather. The interior is lined with deep yellow-gold paper, and contains a tinted copy of the map (8 1/2" x 5 1/2" unfolded) on the recto, and the pertinent lines from the poem on the verso. The front of the portfolio has embedded in it a gray metal skull-and crossbones,guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any honest sailor or merchant, If you're a miniature pirate, this is the map for you!

Also avaiulable in a microminiature version:  THE CAPTAIN'S MAP

This product was added to our catalog  October 24, 2009