Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

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"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.

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  Kidnapped

  • 2021-05-21
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Greenbooks editore
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  Kidnapped

  • 2020-04-21
  • 234 pages
  • Ebook
  • Open Road Media
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  Kidnapped: The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson

  • 2019-03-16
  • 292 pages
  • Paperback
  • Wentworth Press
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  Kidnapped: Large Print

  • 2019-02-03
  • 228 pages
  • Paperback
  • Independently Published