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One man is an Island: natural landscape imagery in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.(Critical Essay)

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20020322
Author:Gibson, Brian

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, written from September to November 1881, was born of landscape--landscape remembered and imagined--and a map. After returning to his homeland with his newlywed American wife and her children, Stevenson was forced out of the Scottish moors by "native air" (1) that had long affected his health, and moved to Braemar, where he was kept indoors by squalls. For both his own entertainment and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne' s, he explains that he

 
made the map of an island; it was elaborately and (I 
thought) beautifully coloured; the shape of it ...

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