Kidnapped or the Adventures of David Balfour contain the stories about how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild mountains; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
