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When Jim Hawkins discovers a dead man's map it's not long before he's off to sea in search of distant treasure. But it seems trouble boarded the ship with him, in the shape of the ship's cook, Long John Silver, who is leading a mutinous band of pirates who want the treasure for themselves and will do anything to get it.