Treasure Island Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co. An old sailor, calling himself "the captain"—real name Billy Bones—comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the West English coast during the mid-18th-century, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". A former shipmate with intact legs, but lacking two fingers, shows up to confront Billy about sharing his treasure map. After running the stranger off in a
The Lives of the Brethren The Lives of the Brethren The Lives of the Brethren () is an early account of the first members of the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominicans. is potentially confusing as there are several works which are often abbreviated to that name. The book that records the early history of the Dominican order is the "Vitae Fratrum Ordinis Praedicatorum". This is to be distinguished from other works such as the "Vitae fratrum eremitarum Ordinis Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae", which is a fifteenth-century account of the Pauline Hermits in Hungary. "The Lives of the Brethren" was written between about