Kidnapped

Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called written by himself and now set forth by:

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

PREFACE

DEDICATION

I. I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS.

II. I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END

III. I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE

IV. I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

V. I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY

VI. WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY

VII. I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART

VIII. THE ROUND-HOUSE

IX. THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD

X. THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE

XI. THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER

XII. I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX”

XIII. THE LOSS OF THE BRIG

XIV. THE ISLET

XV. THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL

XVI. THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN

XVII. THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX

XVIII. I TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE

XIX. THE HOUSE OF FEAR

XX. THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS

XXI. THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH

XXII. THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR

XXIII. CLUNY’S CAGE

XXIV. THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE QUARREL

XXV. IN BALQUHIDDER

XXVI. END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH

XXVII. I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR

XXVIII. I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE

XXIX. I COME INTO MY KINGDOM

XXX. GOOD-BYE

 

Length: 81,800 words.