David Balfour #1
Kidnapped
David Balfour has never had an adventure. He has never spent a night camping in the Scottish Highlands. He has never sailed the high seas. He has never fought in a battle. In fact, David Balfour has never even left home. All he knows is a quiet country life.
All of this changes after the death of his parents. He suddenly learns that he, David Balfour, is a man of wealth and standing, and that he is not destined for a simple life after all. All he needs to do to assume this new station in life is to travel to the town of Cramond, Scotland, to collect his inheritance from his father’s younger brother, an uncle he had not even known existed. But David soon discovers that this is not as simple as it sounds, as he struggles to survive and outwit his treacherous uncle in this classic adventure story.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,1886
This edition
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64 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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November 1, 2004 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- ISBN
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9780689865428
- ASIN
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0689865422
- Language
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English
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David Balfour
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Alan Breck Stewart
Alan Breck Stewart (Gaelic: Ailean Breac Stiùbhart; c. 1711 – c. 1791) was a Scottish soldier and Jacobite. He was also a central figure in a murder case that inspired novels by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson....
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Ebenezer Balfour Of Shaws
David Balfours unclemore...
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Colin Campbell Of Glenure
Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure (1708 - 1752) was the government-appointed factor to the forfeited estates of the Clan Stewart of Appin in north Argyll. He was shot and killed by a marksman in the wood of Lettermore near Duror on 14 May 1752....
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Ewen Macpherson Of Cluny
Ewen MacPherson of Cluny (1706 - 1764) was the chief of the Clan MacPherson at the time of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. He took part as a supporter of Charles Edward Stuart and after the rising was crushed he went into hiding....
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James Stewart Of The Glen
James Stewart of the Glen, (c. 1698 - 8 November 1752) was a Scottish Highlander who was wrongfully accused and hanged as an accessory to the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, popularly known as the Appin Murder.He makes a cameo appearance in the novel...
About the author
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
