Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson [1964 PAPERBACK]

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1964] WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS

Cute pocket sized paperback with plaid cover in very good condition.

Some edge wear and a crease to cover; tanning to pages.  Binding is tight; looks unread.  Cover priced modified by hand  

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin.

Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson’s vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden.