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Half a dozen prequels and perhaps a dozen sequels have been written, too, working to capture the magical spirit of eighteen-century pirates and their murderous hunt for treasure in an exotic Caribbean locale. Given his marvelous imagination and his keen ear for literary cadences, Motion is an ideal candidate to take up where Stevenson left off. Together, they return to Treasure Island to seek the remaining treasure their fathers left behind. Silver also shows how very like their fathers they each can be, and, at the same time, how very different. To enhance their development, Motion surrounds the two with a cast of characters just as eccentric and idiosyncratic as their Treasure Silver: Return to Treasure Island predecessors. Tickle, and a host of other quirky souls. Equally colorful are the settings of Silver. The novel opens awash on very Dickensian British marshes, then sails on a tactile sea of alternating winds and calm, and finally lands in a tropical paradise populated by an extraordinary gaggle of animals. My favorites were the doo-dahs, rotund chubby birds that cannot fly and are delicious when roasted for dinner. That movie, too, was rollicking good fun. Andrew Motion catches that same joie de vivre spirit, overlays it with similarly macabre violence and evil, adds a hefty dose of Silver: Return to Treasure Island, and produces a novel that those of Silver: Return to Treasure Island who love the old classics will thoroughly enjoy. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. Silver: Return to Treasure Island. Author: Andrew Motion. Publisher: Crown. Reviewed by Ann Ronald on July 27, Add your thoughts and comments Cancel reply. Prev Woodsmoke, Wind, and the Peregrine. Tahoe Trap Next. Recent BWS Reviews. About the Reviewer. Her latest is a work of fiction, Friendly Fallout Sign up for reviews by email. Sign Up. Brown Girl Reading, an original water and pen drawing by our own Brandy Burgess. Sincethe very best in reviewing — connecting good readers with equally good writers. Book Reviews. This 'n That blog. Book Club. Contact Us. Latest Review. All the Old Knives. Silver: Return to Treasure Island Post. Combining Like Terms. Return to Treasure Island (TV series) - Wikipedia

There Long John plans to muster up a new crew for the trip to Treasure Island. He has his mind set on Flint's map Having finally arrived at his post in Jamaica, Jim Hawkins soon finds the bookkeeping at Trelawney's plantation to be out of order. He befriends a young slave named Abed but makes an enemy out of Build up your Halloween Watchlist with our list of the Silver: Return to Treasure Island popular horror titles on Netflix in October. See the list. Title: Return to Treasure Island —. In this continuation of the classic "Treasure Island" tale that takes place ten years later, an adult Jim Hawkins meets up again with an older--but not necessarily wiser--Long John Silver. I was thirty-odd years old when I watched this mini-series. Despite my age I enjoyed them passionately. This production had an exceptional cast with British actors, which was befitting. I didn't tape the episodes at the time, much to my chagrin. I have often-times caught myself yearning to revisit this great adventure once again, which is I find in now way inferior to the original Treasure Island, now only fragments in my memory. But the sequel has lived with me for a long time. Now I have learned, however, from a previous comment that the series is out on DVD region 2. Which is basically Europe proper. I shall rush out tomorrow morning, first thing, and order this 3 disc set. Thanks for keeping me abreast of things. We're, most of us, children at heart, I find. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Episode List. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Silver: Return to Treasure Island Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Episode Guide. Creator: Robert S. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. Top-Rated Episodes S1. Error: please try again. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. Best of Series: Top 25 Adventure. Medieval and Asian Epics. TV Watchlist. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Where would you like to return? Saving Mr. Episodes Seasons. Silver: Return to Treasure Island Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Series cast summary: Brian Blessed Long John Silver 10 episodes, Christopher Guard Jim Hawkins 10 episodes, Kenneth Colley Van Der Brecken 9 episodes, Artro Morris Rev Morgan 7 episodes, Peter Lloyd Abed 7 episodes, Donald Pickering Hallows 6 episodes, John Hallam Captain Parker 5 episodes, Deborah Poplett Isabella 5 episodes, Nick Brimble Keelhaul 5 episodes, Christopher Godwin Edit Storyline In this continuation of the classic "Treasure Island" tale that takes place ten years later, an adult Jim Hawkins meets up again with an older--but not necessarily wiser--Long John Silver. Genres: Adventure. Certificate: Edit Did You Know? But in the end credits he is always listed as 'Van Der Brecken', which is incorrect. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Country: UK. Language: English. Runtime: min per episode min 2 episodes 55 min 6 episodes. Sound Silver: Return to Treasure Island Mono. Color: Color. Edit page. Add episode. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Long Silver: Return to Treasure Island Silver 10 episodes, Silver: Return to Treasure Island Jim Hawkins 10 episodes, Ben Gunn 10 episodes, Van Der Brecken 9 episodes, Rev Morgan 7 episodes, Abed 7 episodes, Hallows 6 episodes, Captain Parker 5 episodes, Isabella 5 episodes, Keelhaul 5 episodes, Devereaux 5 episodes, Silver : Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion (, Hardcover) for sale online | eBay

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Silver by Andrew Motion. Their lives are quiet and unremarkable; their adventures have seemingly ended. But for Jim and Natty, the adventure is just beginning. One night, Natty approaches young Jim with a proposition: return to Treasure Island and find the remaining treasure that their fathers left behind so many years before. As Jim and Natty set sail in their fathers' footsteps, they quickly learn that this journey will not be easy. Immediately, they come up against murderous pirates, long-held grudges, and greed and deception lurking in every corner. And when they arrive on Treasure Island, they find terrible scenes awaiting them—difficulties which require all their wit as well as their courage. Nor does the adventure end there, since they have to sail homeward again Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published August 7th by Crown first published March 15th More Details Original Title. Return to Treasure Island 1. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Silverplease sign up. Can I read this as a standalone, without having read Treasure Island? Michaela June Yes, because a recap of Treasure Island is given by the main character. The recap is tied in well and isn't like reading a sparknotes summary. Even th …more Yes, because a recap of Treasure Island is given by the main character. Even though you can read this without reading Treasure Island, Silver: Return to Treasure Island is probably better to read Treasure Island first. Silver has a Silver: Return to Treasure Island of parallels with TI and Motion's writing style can be better appreciated if one can see that it is surprisingly similar to TI. See 1 question about Silver…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Silver Return to Treasure Island 1. Even more, I enjoyed the Muppets version of the film immensely, however that is a separate issue. As far as sequels of classic novels go, typically I am not a fan. Usually, they are glorified fan fiction works - a poorly written attempt to relive the glory of enjoying and loving a previous novel. This Silver: Return to Treasure Island, however, was far more than just a higher quality of fan fiction. It was a work all to itself, drawing upon the Silver: Return to Treasure Island of Silver: Return to Treasure Island idea of Treasure Island to tell its own narrative. The style Silver: Return to Treasure Island used hinted at the previous novel and was beautifully written for a Silver: Return to Treasure Island of two years ago. It felt like the classic prose of the s or even the early s and had a rhythm to it. As I Silver: Return to Treasure Island there were moments when the beauteous simplicity of a phrase as well as the clever conjecture of the main phrasing struck my eye. Natty Silver, being a female presence, adds an extra dimension to the story - a romantic element that was not so present in the original text, as well as allowing for a more feminist reading. These two children are tasked with venturing back to Treasure Island to retrieve silver for Long John, as was left behind. However, what they find on the Island is more than they had expected: the island is now inhabited by tyrannical pirates who lord themselves over Jamaican slaves. It's a novel with plenty of poignant themes and rhythmic moments and one I would not have read had it not been for university studies. However, I am glad I did read this Silver: Return to Treasure Island and would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of seafaring adventures and poetic language. Or for those who are interested in themes of slavery, colonialism and adventure as explored in the late Silver: Return to Treasure Island or early s but written from modern perspectives. Sep 27, Tom Vater rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Hey ho and a buttle of Rum, laddies, pull your cutlasses and sink this ship. It ain't fit to sail the pirate seas. I must admit, I had high swashbuckling hopes for Silver. A sequel of sorts to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, a high rolling high seas adventure that's been a favorite of mine pretty much since I have been able to read. Unfortunately Andrew Motion's Silver is a moralistic dud, mired in cliches and stuffy as chintz. Motion is an accomplished poet and editor, and no doubt, th Hey ho and a buttle of Rum, laddies, pull your cutlasses and sink this ship. Motion is an accomplished poet and editor, and no doubt, the writing is assured, the style effectively harks back to Stenvenson's wonderful tale of pirate derring-do and the story starts Silver: Return to Treasure Island promising enough with Jim Hawkins the younger, son of Jim Hawkins, the boy who traveled Silver: Return to Treasure Island the Hispaniola to the dreaded Treasure Silver: Return to Treasure Island in the original text, tending bar for his embittered aging father. His life is solitary and frustrating until one fine day Natty, the daughter of Long John Silver, the most charismatic character in Treasure Island, and perhaps one of the most remarkable characters in literature generally, turns up on his doorstep and suggests he join her on a return journey, financed by her dying father, to the island, to extract more loot. A bit thin but so far so good. The young teenagers have a ship at their disposal, commandeered by righteous Captain Beamish and manned by a crew of salt dogs vaguely reminiscent of the gang that shipped out on the Hispaniola, the ship in the original tale. But only just vaguely. As soon as the intrepid explorers head West, the Silver: Return to Treasure Island hits deep waters and begins to drown. Because the premise is feeble, the story feels episodic, the connections between chapters first appear Silver: Return to Treasure Island, then appear merely connected by the author's far too obvious moral make-up and finally collapse into-pseudo Christian or Enlightened depending on your point of view nonsense. On the boat, young Jim, passive and ultimately boring throughout with not a filthy thought for Natty in his dull unimaginative mind, is challenged by the nephew of Israel Hands, one of the pirates in the original book, who gets so worked up about the Silver: Return to Treasure Island presence that he stabs a crew man to death and then jumps overboard drowning himself. The scene, through engagingly written, has little influence if any on the rest of the text and is symptomatic of Silver. One asks Why? The boat eventually reaches the island which is inhabited by the three pirates who were left there forty years earlier in Treasure Island. These guys should be dead or at least seriously decrepit by now, but they are having the times of their lives, partying with a group of slaves and their masters who got shipwrecked years earlier. In Andrew Motion's book, literally and proverbially speaking, pirates are bad. There's no Jack Sparrow around and certainly no John Silver either. Pirates are bad, period. They drink, they rape, they kill, the island has made them insane. But not entertainingly so. Jim and Natty are good, incensed and shaken to the core by this depravity and the rest of the book is really just a tale about how the world's evil can and must be fought. I doubt Andrew Motion has ever been anywhere other than the local supermarket or done anything other than give talks in Oxbridge - this is academic middle class white man's writing at its worst. Stevenson was an intrepid traveler who was ill most of his life and ended his days on a tropical island. His book drips with moral ambiguity and the most fleshed out character, Silver was vile and Silver: Return to Treasure Island, animal and human in turns. In Motion's Silver, these qualities are neatly separated between the bad guys and the good guys. And it gets worse. As Jim and Natty stumble round the island, they discover strange animals. The dodo is familiar enough but squirrels the size of dogs sound like they have escaped from Dr. No explanation, no reason for them to be in the story. Another creature is heard but never seen. In the book's most depressing episode, Jim and Captain Beamish who behaves like a sentimental idiot who deserves to die and die he does encounter a beach full of sea lions that's straight out of a Greenpeace ad. Jim goes for a swim, underestimates the current, drowns and is saved by a sea lion pup. The comments on slavery Silver: Return to Treasure Island revolting - Beamish changes the mission he is endowed with from finding the loot and getting the hell off the island to saving the 'negroes', a passive, Bible-clutching bunch, who know their place, except for the leader Scotland who escapes the clutches of the pirates only to end his life later after his wife is killed in one of the very few good scenes as one of the evil pirates kills her for fun. Beamish endangers his crew because he is a progressive thinker. In one of the most stomach churning moments, he reflects that while slavery is by no means finished We are talking early 19th century.