Author: Robert Louis Stevenson; Rowland Hilder (Illustrator)
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: $29.95 AUD
: 9780679436386
: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
: Everyman's Library
: 0.598742
: 27 September 1994
: 1.09 Inches X 6.37 Inches X 8.29 Inches
: 29.95
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: Robert Louis Stevenson; Rowland Hilder (Illustrator)
: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
: Hardback
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: English
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9780679436386
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'I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.'
Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfour's only relative is his guardian and uncle, Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many, it's not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.
He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule. A tale of high-seas adventure, loyalty and fighting, the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson's novel from becoming 'just' a boys adventure novel.
