{"product_id":"kidnapped-9781529048728","title":"Kidnapped","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by real events, \u003ci\u003eKidnapped \u003c\/i\u003eis a swashbuckling adventure of bizarre encounters, political assassination and wild carousings with Robert Louis Stevenson's unique counterpoint of low morals and high comedy threaded throughout.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeadstrong David Balfour, orphaned at seventeen, sets out from the Scottish lowlands to seek his fortune in Edinburgh and finds himself abducted on the orders of his wealthy Uncle Ebenezer. He's carried away to sea to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas, where he secures a timely alliance with Jacobite adventurer Alan Breck, and together they make an epic escape across the western Highlands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition is introduced by Louise Welsh and features black and white illustrations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book\u003ci\u003e An Inland Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880 he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island \u003c\/i\u003e(1883), \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKidnapped \u003c\/i\u003e(both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376698102034,"sku":"9781529048728","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ac85359-3ad3-4037-8136-19931d9daa2b.jpg?v=1748603329","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kidnapped-9781529048728","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}