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Kidnapped and Catriona: The Adventures of David Balfour
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Kidnapped and Catriona: The Adventures of David Balfour Paperback - 2007

by Stevenson, R. L

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Birlinn Ltd. Used - Like New. 2007. Paperback. Fine.
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I WILL begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.

About the author

Robert Louis Stevenson's real life adventures rival those of his famous fictional characters. Born into a strictly religious, middle-class Edinburgh family, he later rebelled and refused to follow his father into the lighthouse construction business, opting instead for a literary career and marriage to Fanny, the love of his life and a crack-shot American divorcee. His travels took him to France, America and the South Pacific. Stevenson was an atheist and free spirit--in Samoa, where he died, he fought in a civil war for independence. In 1886, the blockbuster novel Kidnapped was published--a dramatic adventure of abduction and life on the run in the wilds of Scotland. Stevenson died in 1894, just 44 years old. The Samoan natives, who were devoted to Stevenson, cut a track through the jungle to create a resting place for him on top of the mountain above his beloved Vailima estate.