Kidnapped

Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson

First published in 1886, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Scottish adventure set in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, telling the story of the kidnap of David Balfour and his subsequent journey across Scotland on foot, with Alan Breck between 27 June and 25 August 1751. This journey, pursued by redcoats, was the basis for our proposed Stevenson Way described elsewhere on the site.

In 1893 Stevenson, by now resident in Samoa, published Catriona, which takes up the story of David Balfour's adventures where Kidnapped leaves off, amply making up for what some feel to be a rather rushed ending to this first novel. The full text of Catriona is also available on Undiscovered Scotland

Like other eBooks whose texts are reproduced on Undiscovered Scotland, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson is long out of copyright. What sets the Undiscovered Scotland version apart is the cross linking between the text of the book and features elsewhere on the site, allowing the reader to explore beyond the text itself, finding out more about the places and people mentioned.