Treasure Island, Pieces of Eight
The schooner taken single-handed, a flag struck, and a parrot calling the old counting cry.
Retold for sleep from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883 and long out of copyright. The story is Stevenson's; every sentence here is our own.
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Thomas Reed
Soft, slow, hushed
Soft-spoken and slow, a bedtime-story hush, plain, warm, and easy to come back to.
About this session
Treasure Island, Pieces of Eight is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Thomas Reed.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.