01279cam a2200265 4500 214731054 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 930630s1981||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 88062424 9780451525048 0451525043 TxAuBib Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped / Robert Louis Stevenson. New York : Penguin, 1981. 239 pages ; 18 cm. After his father dies, David Balfour is told to go to his uncle for his inheritance. But the uncle has no intention of letting the riches go—so he plots to kill Balfour, ultimately arranging for him to be kidnapped as a slave bound for the American colonies. Balfour's future looks bleak—until he witnesses a shipwreck and befriends the lone survivor, a rugged Highlander named Alan Breck Stewart. Together, they plan their rebellion—and the fight back home to claim Balfour's inheritance. 19940714. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Kidnapping victims Fiction. Shipwrecks Fiction. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Fiction. Classic fiction.