Young David Balfour's efforts to claim his rightful inheritance are complicated by the Jacobite rebellion in eighteenth-century Scotland and by his greedy uncle's schemes to seize the fortune for himself. Reissue Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands. From the Trade Paperback edition.
