Kidnapped
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Kidnapped
Narrated by:
AI Voice Alex Mercer
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Alex Mercer
This title uses virtual voice narration
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Summary
David Balfour is seventeen and penniless when he leaves the village of Essendean in June 1751 to seek out the uncle he has never met. The House of Shaws turns out to be a half-ruined tower and his uncle a frightened, cunning old man, and before the week is out David has been knocked on the head, carried aboard a brig bound for the Carolinas, and sentenced to be sold as a slave.
What follows is one of the great adventures in the English language: a shipwreck off the coast of Mull, a long flight on foot across the Highlands with a red-coated soldier's reward on his head and a wanted man at his side. That man is Alan Breck Stewart, Jacobite, swordsman and liar, and the friendship between the sober Lowland boy and the reckless Highland gentleman is the heart of the book. Together they cross heather, swim cold sounds, argue about kings and money, and survive a murder they did not commit.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Kidnapped in 1886, after Treasure Island had made his name, and he did something unusual with it: he set a boy's adventure inside real history, the aftermath of the '45, and let both sides of that quarrel be right and wrong at once. Scotland itself is the other main character, from the smoke of Edinburgh's closes to the wet, empty moors of Appin and Morven.
This unabridged reading follows all thirty chapters, from the journey to the House of Shaws to David's last walk into the city of Edinburgh.
Narrated by Alex Mercer.
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