About the book: year / Kidnapped, or The Adventures of David Balfour, which tells how he was kidnapped and shipwrecked, how he languished on an uninhabited island and wandered in the wild mountains, how fate brought him together with Alan Breck Stuart and other ardent Scottish Jacobites, and also about everything that he suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour, called the owner of Chausse Castle without any right, described by himself and brought to your attention now by Robert Louis Stevenson.