Set in the year 1751, this classic adventure story centers around David Balfour, a young Scotsman orphaned by the death of his father.Through the treachery of his uncle, the young hero finds himself shanghaied and headed for bondage in the New World. Just when things look their worst, a swashbuckling Highlander, Alan Breck Stewart,comes to the rescue...

Set in the year 1751, this classic adventure story centers around David Balfour, a young Scotsman orphaned by the death of his father.Through the treachery of his uncle, the young hero finds himself shanghaied and headed for bondage in the New World. Just when things look their worst, a swashbuckling Highlander, Alan Breck Stewart,comes to the rescue.

David eludes his shipboard captors and joins Stewart on a wild flight through the Highlands, pursued by both the King’s forces and a notorious clan of Highland Jacobites. Flavorful, suspenseful, and peopled by realistic characters, this stirring novel was considered by the author to be his finest work of fiction. It is reprinted here, complete and unabridged, in a high-quality, inexpensive edition sure to delight a new generation of young readers.

I Set Off upon My Journey to the House

  of Shaws

I Come to My Journey’s End

I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle

I Run a Great Danger in the House

  of Shaws

I Go to the Queen’s Ferry

What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry

I Go to Sea in tile Brig Covenant

  of Dysart

The Roundhouse

The Man with the Belt of Gold

The Siege of the Roundhouse

The Captain Knuckles Under

I Hear of the “Red Fox”

The Loss of the Brig

The Islet

The Lad with the Silver Button:

 Through the Isle of Mull

The Lad with the Silver Button:

 Across Morven

The Death of the Red Fox

I Talk with Alan in the Wood

  of Lettermore

The House of Fear

The Flight in the Heather:

  The Rocks

The Flight in the Heather:

  The Heugh of Corrynakiegh

The Flight in the Heather:

  The Moor

Cluny’s Cage

The Flight in the Heather:

  The Quarrel

In Balquhidder

End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth

I Come to Mr. Rankeillor

I Go in Quest of My Inheritance

I Come into My Kingdom

Good-bye