Kidnapped - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Robert Louis Stevenson, Louise Welsh (Introduction by)Audience:08 - 11Publish date:2021-07-13Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:MacMillan Collector's LibraryISBN-13:9781529048728ISBN-10:1529048729UPC:9781529048728Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Historical, Action & AdventureSize:6.24 x 4.13 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC7QSJAW9V
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Inspired by real events, Kidnapped is a swashbuckling adventure of bizarre encounters, political assassination and wild carousings with Robert Louis Stevenson's unique counterpoint of low morals and high comedy threaded throughout. Headstrong David Balfour, orphaned at seventeen, sets out from the Scottish lowlands to seek his fortune in Edinburgh and finds himself abducted on the orders of his wealthy Uncle Ebenezer. He's carried away to sea to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas, where he secures a timely alliance with Jacobite adventurer Alan Breck, and together they make an epic escape across the western Highlands. This edition is introduced by Louise Welsh and features black and white illustrations.Language:EnglishPublisher:MacMillan Collector's LibraryISBN-13:9781529048728ISBN-10:1529048729UPC:9781529048728Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Historical, Action & AdventureSize:6.24 x 4.13 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC7QSJAW9V
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880 he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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