Kidnapped - by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Robert Louis Stevenson's classic swashbuckling adventure, inspired by true events, introduced by Louise Walsh.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Inspired by real events, <i>Kidnapped </i>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. <p/>Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by Louise Welsh and features black and white illustrations. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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<i> An Inland Voyage</i> (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, <i>Treasure Island </i>(1883), <i>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</i>, and <i>Kidnapped </i>(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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