Kidnapped pdf

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland on November 13, is a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and writer specializing in travel literature. Stevenson was admired by many writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges. Robert Lewis studied engineering, his father's profession, at the University of Edinburgh, but was not interested in the subject. In 1871, he changed his studies to law. But he knew he also wanted to be a writer. After university, Robert Louis visited France, Belgium and the United States and wrote about these trips. Stevenson became a full-time writer. Most of his early writings were short stories and travel books. He became famous when he wrote Treasure Island, his first long work of fiction. Other famous books were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886).

Kidnapped pdf by Robert Louis Stevenson

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. ‘A cracking tale of low skulduggery and high adventure, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped has enthralled generations of readers since its first publication in 1886. A book for thrill-seekers of all ages, this romp through Jacobite Scotland is a true classic.’ Sunday Herald.