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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson & Michael Morpurgo & Pal' & L' o & uboslav
David Balfour's Uncle Ebenezer is a crooked, mean old man. He tricks the lad into joining a slave ship and heading off to the Carolinas. Fortunately David rises to the occasion and emerges victorious to claim his rightful inheritance.Set in Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion, young David Balfour leaves home and goes to the sinister House of Shaws. There, he finds himself kidnapped, the victim of his uncle's plot to cheat him of his inheritance, aboard a ship bound for America. He teams up with the Jacobite loyalist and spy, Alan Breck and they take on the ship's crew in a courageous battle but are soon shipwrecked. Later they find themselves suspected of the murder of 'Red Fox', a notorious enemy of the Jacobeans. They flee across the Highlands in a perilous journey back to David's home where he finally claims his inheritance. First serialised in 'Young Folks' magazine in 1886, and issued as a book later that year, Kidnapped provided much of the inspiration for John Buchan's 'The Thirty Nine Steps' and a generation of subsequent thrillers. |
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| Author(s) : Robert Louis Stevenson & Michael Morpurgo | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 1851497080 | ISBN-13 : 9781851497089 |
| RRP : £9.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : ACC Children's Classics
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 01/01/1999
Publisher : Antique Collectors' Club Ltd
Page Length : 208mm
Page Size : 250mm