Captain William Kidd

Treasure Island - Audiobook

Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired by the legends of Captain Kidd while writing the novel Treasure Island - Kidd even gets a couple of mentions in the story.


Join daring Jim Hawkins as he and the treacherous crew of the Hispaniola going looking for gold - and find more than they bargained for.


This audiobook version of the novel was recorded by 60 different voices from across the Inverclyde community, from politicians and local celebrities, to young volunteers and school pupils.,


The audiobook was recorded as part of the Feeling Sound project, supported by Inverclyde Community Health & Wellbeing Fund, administered by CVS Inverclyde.


You can listen to the first few chapters below on soundcloud, or download the full book as an mp3 to listen to on the device of your choice, or listen to the full thing on our youtube channel.


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Gold Bugs

Kidd's treasure ALSO pops up in Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Gold Bug...and that's the inspiration for this puzzle filled adventure for PCs, created for us by students of Glasgow Caledonian University Applied Games Department.


Download for free from the GCU itch.io page.

I Thought I Was Undone 
The Ballad of Captain Kidd

Mark is organising the final exhibition in a museum which is about to close.

With weeks until he and his colleagues are made redundant, he has chosen to explore the life and legend of the doomed Scottish pirate, Captain William Kidd.

As he digs into the strange story of the pirate, and wanders the blurred line between fact and fiction, history and myth, Mark begins to realise there is something strange going on at the museum...

I Thought I Was Undone is written by Paul Bristow with artwork by Andy Lee, featuring buried treasure, secret maps, sea shanties, courtroom drama, 
creatures from beyond and unreliable photocopiers.
(Recommended for readers 12+ due to some slightly messy moments 
and language of a piratical nature.)


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