Kidnapped

There are two things that men should never weary of goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold proud people.- Robert Louis Stevenson KidnappedThis jacketed hardcover edition of Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his fathers death David reaches out to an uncle who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. Davids rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.