Google Doodle Celebrates 160th Birthday of Famous Writer Robert Louis Stevenson

Google continues to celebrate special days and events with new doodle on home page. Today, Google has put up a Google Doodle on 160th birthday of famous Scottish novelist Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.

Google has updated its usual logo on its homepage to an image based on Treasure Island. The first letter ‘G’ in this picture is the pirate, the first ‘O’ is the compass of the map and the second ‘O’ is the mountain, the Ship depicts the ‘G’, the pirate flag is the ‘L’ and the box with the treasure is the ‘E.’

The current version of the iOS app was updated on October 27, and another updated iOS 4.2 is released. Treasure Island app costs just $1.99 from the iTunes store.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, born on November, 13, 1850. His best-known books are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae, and Prince Otto and Catriona. Stevenson ranks among the 50 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He died on December 3, 1894.

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