Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic swashbuckling adventure, inspired by true events, introduced by Louise Walsh. Headstrong David Balfour, orphaned at seventeen, sets out from his forest home to seek his fortune in Edinburgh and finds himself abducted on the orders of his own flesh and blood. Inspired by real eighteenth­century events, he's carried away to sea to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas, where he makes a timely alliance with Jacobite adventurer Alan Breck, and together they make an epic escape across the western Highlands. Kidnapped is a picaresque journey of bizarre encounters, political assignation and wild carousings with Robert Louis Stevenson's unique counterpoint of low morals and high comedy threaded throughout. This edition is introduced by Louise Walsh. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, pocket sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.