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Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ... / written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Title
Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ... / written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Publication
New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1917.

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Description
xi, 324 p. : plates, fold. map; 19 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • Teenage boys > Fiction
  • Kidnapping victims > Fiction
  • Disinheritance > Fiction
  • Jacobites > Fiction
  • Scotland > History > 18th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Historical fiction
  • Adventure fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
  • 4170530
  • SCSB-12646343
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library