Kidnapped

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson written as a boys’ novel. The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots a Germanic language that evolved from an earlier incarnation of English. Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century Scottish events notably the “Appin Murder” which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people including one of the principals Alan Breck Stewart. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically.