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Silver: Return to Treasure Island
- Narrated by: David Tennant
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
The thrilling follow-up to Treasure Island, as told by one of England's greatest contemporary writers.
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Late one night, a mysterious girl named Natty arrives with a request from her father, Long John Silver. Aged and weak, but still possessing a strange power, the pirate proposes that Young Jim and Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flint's hidden bounty, left behind many years before...
Featuring a cast of noble seamen, murderous pirates, and stories of love, valour and terrible cruelty, Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island - one of the greatest adventure stories ever told - and a work of extraordinary authenticity and imaginative power.
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- shona lidgey
- 10-04-24
Fabulous narration
I love the original story and this sequel was really well written. Good story and great characters. David Tennant is superb and his different accents and characters are amazing.
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- angela commons
- 26-11-20
Amazing!!!!
I didn't think they made stories like this anymore. It was a brilliant sequel to Treasure Island. Fantastic performance by David Tennant. Everything I wanted and more, and some really horrible Pirates!!! Highly recommended. 11/10
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- Mark Livingstone
- 05-04-20
A worthy sequel to the original
David Tennant's narration is always on point and I was submerged in the story from the off well worth a look
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- paul rooney
- 19-12-18
Too much to live up to
I wondered just how this could match up to the book that inspired it. Stevenson's rip-roaring, edge-of-the-seat, swashbuckling classic takes some matching, after all. Despite the fabulous effort David Tenant made of bringing the tale to life, I'm afraid that Andrew Motion, for all his literary credentials, simply does not get close.
In itself, it's a nice story, well written and holds the interest but comparison with Treasure Island is constantly and unavoidably in the mind and it is the sense of excitement - the thrill - that just isn't there. I kept thinking it would kick in any minute, but it never really did.
In summary, then, worth a listen but be ready for an entirely different, less visceral experience.
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- simon
- 30-04-20
Great listen some issues
Brilliant story feel like a copy of the original to begin with but drawers you in through buying into the characters. Leaves some thread un finished and leaves you feeling like there should be more. David Tennants performance and voices are devine
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- Jennifer Allan
- 07-07-21
entirely ok
fantastic narration but a story that never really got off the ground. Despite lovely descriptions and whimsical ideas, it just never really got going or grabbed me.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-02-22
Disappointing
A very poor story which was brilliantly read. I would have given up early on had it been otherwise.
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-01-22
An Excellent Novel Brilliantly Performed
This follow-up novel is an astonishing and welcome achievement. It then goes one better to have its audio-book performed by an intelligent and sensitive person (David Tennant) who can breathe life into any description, thought, action or character. Some might say there is not action enough, but I disagree. What it also adds in the thoughts of the main character which is fully involving. Often as not drama and tension are in thoughts not plot. It is gripping novel throughout. Andrew Motion is also a poet and this means his attention to language and description is beyond the capacity of so many plot-novelists. Many times I wanted to make a note in my hardcopy of the novel to return to jewels of description. The book is well crafted in another way, in that its chapter lengths are well judged and this aids the narrative flow. I find nothing about the book that is niggling. I'm pleased that my speculative purchase was so rewarding. Just describing the novel to others has created a chain of readers for the hardback.
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- L M Brown
- 02-11-18
Very good
Enjoyable and very descriptive. A very good sequel to Treasure Island. The narrative was very good.
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- Ross H
- 29-04-20
Interesting addition
While not quite on the same level as the original treasure island, this is a well written and well narrated story, full of bushy-eyed adventure and excitement, highly recommended
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