Jim Hawkins, runabout scamp, son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn, befriends a lodger named Billy Bones--a secretive sailor with a tantalizing history--and his life is forever changed. Soon, Jim is thrown into an adventure filled with pirates and magistrates, treasures and betrayals, sea voyages and battles. And through it all there is the specter and influence of a one-legged man, a man known to many as Long John Silver . . .