Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century
Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the
aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. 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.
Ключови думи: kidnapped, Robert, Louis, Stevenson, historical, adventure, Balfour, inheritance, Alan, Breck, Jacobite, highlander, scottish
