The True Story of Treasure Island
It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. However, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived abroad for many years. In 1881he returned to Scotland for a holiday .With him were his American wife Fanny and his son Lloyd.
Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long walk over the hills. They had been enjoying this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days dull. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some drawing.
One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island, Robert noticed that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of the island. “What’s that?” he asked. “That’s the buried treasure,” said the boy. Robert suddenly saw something of an adventure story in the boy’s picture. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the hero a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate(海盗)？
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the help of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to include such a man in a story. Thus Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was born .
So, thanks to a rainy September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest adventure stories in the English language.

金银岛的真实故事
长期以来，人们总是认为金银岛是罗伯特•路易斯•斯蒂文森充满想象力的作品。然而近来的研究发现他创作这部脍炙人口小说时的真实故事。
史蒂文森，苏格兰人，在国外生活了许多年。1881年他和他的美国妻子芬妮，儿子劳埃德
返回苏格兰度假。
每天早晨，史蒂文森带他们到山丘上漫步。他们一家就这样一直享受着家庭的温馨和大自然的风光。突然有一天，天气急转直下下起了大雨。在家里待着，劳埃德觉得枯燥无味。为了让孩子不寂寞，罗伯特就让孩子画画解闷。
一天早晨，孩子手里拿着一幅漂亮的岛屿地图来到罗伯特跟前。罗伯特发现孩子在岛屿的当中画了一个大大的十字，便问道：“这是什么？ ” 孩子回答道：“这里埋有宝藏，”。罗伯特突然从男孩的画中构想到了一个探险故事。虽然外面下着瓢泼大雨，罗伯特在壁炉旁坐下开始创作他的探险故事了。故事的主人公是一个12岁的和劳埃德一样男孩，可是谁是海盗呢？
罗伯特有一个名叫亨利的好朋友，他的腿有残疾并安了一个木假腿。罗伯特一直希望他的作品中有这样一个人。于是，郎 约翰 西尔瓦这个有着木假腿海盗角色便诞生了。
因此，感谢苏格兰9月的雨，有着木假腿的朋友和一个12岁有想象力的男孩，我们才有了一部最伟大的英语探险故事。