Name: Kidnapped
ISBN: 9780375757259

Robert Louis Stevenson

A finely honed, stirring adventure about the orphan David Balfour, who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle and escapes through the Scottish highlands, only to become involved in the Scottish struggle for independence. This edition features a new introduction by Margot Livesey.

or, The Lad with the Silver Button

Kidnapped

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

A. D. Knapp

Andrew John Kinney

My favorite book by RLS. Much better than Treasure Island, I think. But to digress, I love RLS' Requiem, written for his own tomb:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I lay me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Dimitris Papastergiou

A nice adventure that reminds you of pirates stories and slavery. In general, all the stories from back then were pretty much the same, the ones that had to do with adventures from place to place and with treasures and journeys going wrong and liars and people getting backstabbed and back and forth. But, all in all I liked the character (even though naive), the plot, especially anything that had to do with his uncle was fun to read. And of course let's not forget the main reason I wanted to read it, it's set in the 18th century and the realism is really good on this one. It made me feel like I was there, so that takes it up a notch.

Kidnapped or, The Lad with the Silver Button

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