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Kidnapped


Classification

Series Number: 372
Genre: Fiction
Series: David Balfour
Condition: New
Read: ✓
Shelf: 9
Goodreads: Yes

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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Binding: Paperback
Cover Price: 0.50
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Publishing

Publisher: Aerie
Copyright Year: 2002
Publication Year: 1886
ISBN#: 0-439-29578-5
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Pages: 225
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Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the willful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin.

Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson’s vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden.