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• Title: Treasure Island: The Untold Story
• Author : John Amrhein Jr.
• Release Date : January 26, 2011
• Genre: History,Books,United States,Nonfiction,True Crime,Americas,Transportation,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 78491 KB

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IT HAPPENED! In 1750, fifty-five chests of silver pieces of eight were stolen from a Spanish galleon at Ocracoke, North Carolina, and carried to the West Indies where most of it was buried on Norman Island, a deserted key in the British Virgin Islands.

In 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson published a fictional tale of adventure about an expedition to an unnamed Caribbean island to recover a treasure that had been buried there in 1750. The map that was in Stevenson’s Treasure Island was drawn by him and his father and is probably the most famous treasure map in the world. In the story, the map was discovered in a dead pirate’s sea chest by a young teenager named Jim Hawkins. Guided by the map, Stevenson’s remarkable cast of characters sails the Hispaniola to the Caribbean in the hopes of recovering the treasure. Who hasn’t heard of Long John Silver? He is more famous than the author himself.



A Treasure, a legendary priest, and a miracle

On August 18, 1750, the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe had left Havana, Cuba, for Cadiz, Spain, with a cargo valued at nearly a million pieces of eight. She had come from Veracruz, Mexico, where she had loaded her precious cargo. The Guadalupe had just completed another historic journey: she had delivered twenty Franciscan priests from Spain, one of whom was the legendary Father Junipero Serra, who, through a miracle, saved the ship, her passengers, and her crew from certain doom on the feast day of St. Barbara. Father Serra went on to build nine mission churches in Southern California, leaving us with San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco, among others today. Without this miracle, no treasure would have been buried on a deserted Caribbean island in 1750. One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Robert Louis Stevenson, an almost unknown writer at the time, stood before his grave and was moved to tears as he marveled at the devotion of his Indian converts and Father Serra’s mission work at Carmel, California. Stevenson...

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