
Kidnapped
Robert Louise Stevenson(Author)
Real Reads (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-911091-08-0 (ISBN)
Description
A bright flash of lightning lit up the darkness and showed me the horrible truth - the stairs came to a sudden stop, and if I had taken onemore step I would have plunged to my death upon the flagstones far below. When young David Balfour visits his uncle Ebenezer, he hopes for some good news about his inheritance. Instead he is kidnapped. Why do his enemies want to get rid of him? After David makes friends with a Scottish soldier, Alan Breck Stewart, he discovers that Alan has rebelled against the King of England. David is a loyal subject of King George - so should he help his friend when he discovers that Alan's life is in deadly danger? David soon finds that he is a wanted man, hunted by the English redcoats. Can he escape from the wild and hazardous Highlands of Scotland before he is captured?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Kindergarten, Interest Age: From 0 to 11 years
Illustrations
40 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 131 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911091-08-0 (9781911091080)
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Persons
The real life adventures of author Robert Louis Stevenson rival those of his famous fictional characters. Born into a strictly religious, middle-class Edinburgh family, he later rebelled and refused to follow his father into the lighthouse construction business, opting instead for a literary career and marriage to Fanny, the love of his life and a crack-shot American divorcee. His travels took him to France, America and the South Pacific. Stevenson was an atheist and free spirit - in Samoa, where he died - and he fought in a civil war for independence. In 1886, the blockbuster novel Kidnapped was published - a dramatic adventure of abduction and life on the run in the wilds of Scotland. Stevenson died in 1894, just 44 years old. The Samoan natives, who were devoted to Stevenson, cut a track through the jungle to create a resting place for him on top of the mountain above his beloved Vailima estate.