![]() ![]() It was originally published in the American magazine OurYoung Folks, targeted at 10-18 year olds. Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away his Sufferings in a Desert Isle his Journey in the Wild Highlands 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 But just in case I’m not, let the full title suffice: I’m probably the last 50-something, 20+-years Alba inhabiting “reader” to have discovered them. Instead I decided to track them down on the pages of Kidnapped. ![]() While I located Stevenson’s childhood home, in a lovely part of town I might add, I never did pinpoint the Balfour/Breck statue. I have decided to fill a huge gap in my reading and finally acquaint myself with some classics from the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. It took an Argentinian-Canadian ( Alberto Manguel) and a Swiss ( Alex Capus) to persuade me. ![]()
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