Published in 1886, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel set in the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Young David Balfour, newly orphaned and cheated of his inheritance by his treacherous uncle, is kidnapped and shipped off to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas — only for the ship to founder and deliver him into the company of the fiery Jacobite outlaw Alan Breck Stewart.
Stevenson’s command of Highland geography, his vivid characterization of the friendship between the cautious Lowlander David and the swaggering Alan, and his relentless plotting made Kidnapped one of the greatest adventure novels in the English language. Download the free EPUB and set off across the heather.