Do you want to visit Treasure Island? Robert Louis Stevenson is the latest person to inspire a Google doodle.The internet search engine has updated its usual logo on its homepage to an image based on Treasure Island, one of Stevenson's most famous works.
Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850, with Treasure Island - a classic adventure story of pirates and buried treasure - published 33 years later.
His other novels which found major success were Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Stevenson collapsed and died suddenly in Samoa, where he had been living for four years, when he was just 44.
Other recent subjects Google has marked with a doodle include Oscar Wilde's 156th birthday, 115 years since the discovery of X rays, and the 93rd birthday of jazz great Dizzy Gillespie.
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