# Kidnapped (Illustrated)

_Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751_

By Robert Louis Stevenson.

"Kidnapped (Illustrated)" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a historical fiction adventure novel written in 1886. Seventeen-year-old David Balfour journeys to claim his inheritance, only to be betrayed by his uncle and sold into slavery aboard a ship bound for the American colonies. After a shipwreck throws him together with the fugitive Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart, David finds himself caught up in political intrigue and accused of murder in the dangerous Scottish Highlands of 1751. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth
- Subjects: Historical fiction; Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Kidnapping -- Fiction

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