Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dangerous new friend.

At a glance Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of a young man cheated of his inheritance and thrown into… What it's about Kidnapped follows David Balfour, a newly orphaned youth who goes to… Shipwreck throws him together with Alan Breck Stewart, a proud and reckless Highland… The country itself, the misty hills and the perils of the road, becomes almost a…

Kidnapped follows David Balfour, a newly orphaned youth who goes to claim his due from a miserly uncle and is instead betrayed, seized and carried off to sea.