Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

This is an enjoyable adventure yarn, written in the late Nineteenth Century but set 150 years earlier in the aftermath of the failed Scottish rebellion. The core of the book is the relationship between two characters who are on opposite sides politically but come to depend on each other.

As a confirmed Caledoniophile, I really enjoyed the descriptions of the highlands and the Scottish vernacular, even if it sometimes comes over as a little bit Rambling Syd Rumpo:

ye have a fine, hang-dog, rag-and-tatter, clappermaclaw kind of a look to ye, as if ye had stolen the coat from a potato-bogle.