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ENTHRALLING HIGHLAND ESCAPADES; Children's Classic.
From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040130
Author:
KIDNAPPED
by Harry Ritchie
FAMOUSLY a lifelong invalid, Robert Louis Stevenson was recuperating in Bournemouth from yet another severe illness when he wrote Kidnapped.
Like a prisoner dreaming of travelling the world, the frail author created an action-packed adventure featuring shipwrecks, fights and flights, and starring a strong, fit teenager who has to run for his life.
Stevenson also set the story far from the South Coast, in the Scottish Highlands. There's a time difference, too. Stevenson was taking the sea air in 1885, but his tale takes place in 1751 - ...
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