Kidnapped, Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

Historical novel, by the author of Treasure Island. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 18503 December 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it."