Kidnapped and Catriona
Kidnapped and Catriona(Gaelic for Catherine and pronounced Catreena), a novel and its sequel by R. L. Stevenson , published in 1886 and 1893 .
The central incident in the story is the murder of Colin Campbell, the ‘Red Fox’ of Glenure, the king's factor on the forfeited estate of Ardshiel: this is a historical event. The young David Balfour, left in poverty on the death of his father, goes for assistance to his uncle Ebenezer, a miserly old villain who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Having failed to effect the death of David, Ebenezer has him kidnapped on a ship to be carried off to the Carolinas. On the voyage Alan Breck is picked up from a sinking boat. He is ‘one of those honest gentlemen that were in trouble about the years forty-five and six’, a Jacobite who ‘wearies for the heather and the deer’. The ship is wrecked on the coast of Mull, and David and Alan journey together. They are witnesses...
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