"Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)

The young hero of this very interesting adventure story does get kidnapped early on as one expects from the title, but rapidly escapes from the ship which has absconded him off the west coast of Scotland, and spends the rest of the book wandering around the Highlands a) trying to find someone who can understand a word of English; (b) getting very seriously mixed up in the Jacobite rebellion raging at the time; c) hiding from the Crown troops who are actively hunting him as a murder suspect; and d) trying to recuperate the inheritance that his awful uncle (who got him kidnapped in the first place) has done him out of.

A rousing story and a fascinating insight into the way of life in the Highlands in the middle of the 18th century, with a most impressive selection of local Scottish-English words (with their standard-English equivalents provided by the author in footnotes).

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