Follow the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws.
At his father's death in the summer of 1751, David balfour left the village of Essendean, Scotland and went to live with a miserly old uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws. Ebenezer, fearing David's rightful claim on the Shaw estate, tried to kill the boy. Failing in that, he had the boy kidnapped and put on board a ship bound for America. On this trip David met Alan Breck, a member of the outlawed Stewart clan, bitter enemies of Scotland's rulers, the Campbells. The ship they were on was wrecked on reefs off the Scottish shores. David separated from Alan, made his way to a pre-arranged meeting place.
Catriona (also known as David Balfour), a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped. It tells the further story of the central character David Balfour. The book begins precisely where Kidnapped ends, at 2 PM on 25 August 1751 outside the British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the second part, David and Catriona travel to Holland, where David studies law at the University of Leyden.
