A classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The story follows young David Balfour, an orphan who sets out to claim his inheritance but is betrayed by his uncle and kidnapped. After being sold into servitude and shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, David becomes involved in dangerous political conflicts and forms an unlikely friendship with the charismatic Highlander Alan Breck Stewart.

Set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland following the Jacobite uprisings, the novel combines adventure, survival, history, and coming-of-age themes.