Kidnapped (novel)

Kidnapped
	1st American edition 1886
Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Language	English
Media type	Print

Kidnapped is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published in 1886. It tells the story of the 18th-century "Appin Murder" following the Jacobite Rising.^[1] Some of the characters in the book were based on real people. The book has been adapted to movies many times and to comic books.

Kidnapped (novel) Media

Kidnapped sketch of route of ship and David's walk across Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson at age 35 in 1885
Kidnapped cover, by William Brassey Hole, London edition, Cassell and Company, 1886
Alexander Stoddart's Kidnapped statue at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, depicting Alan Breck Stewart and David Balfour at their final parting on Corstorphine Hill (unveiled 2004). Breck holds the handmade cross with silver button, cleverly designed to carry a message to an illiterate colleague.

Related pages

Kidnapped (movie)

References

↑ Auslan Cramb (November 14, 2008). "18th Century murder conviction 'should be quashed'". The Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/3459744/18th-Century-murder-conviction-should-be-quashed.html.

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[Appin-1] Auslan Cramb (November 14, 2008). "18th Century murder conviction 'should be quashed'". The Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/3459744/18th-Century-murder-conviction-should-be-quashed.html.

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