Seventeen-year-old David Balfour\'s villainous uncle has him Kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance.
His health improved, yet he remained homesick for Scotland, and it was to the "cold old huddle of grey hills" of the Lowlands that he returned in his last, unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermis.
In 1889 Stevenson\'s deteriorating health exiled him to the tropics, and he settled in Samoa, where he was given patriarchal status by the natives.
Hyde (1886)
The Master of Ballantrae (1889).
Jekyll and Mr.
Indeed, all his works reveal a profound sense of landscape and atmosphere: Kidnapped (1886)
The Strange Case of Dr.
As a novelist he was intrigued with the genius of place: Treasure Island (1883) began as a map to amuse a boy.
He and Fanny, having married in California and spent their honeymoon by an abandoned silver mine, traveled back to Scotland, then to Switzerland, to the South of France, to the American Adirondacks, and finally to the south of France, to the South Seas.
All his life Stevenson traveled-often in a desperate quest for health.
In 1880, against his family\'s wishes, he married an American divorc e, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was ten years his senior; but the family was soon reconciled to the match, and the marriage proved a happy one.
By the time he was called to the bar, however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he never actually practiced law.
Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studied instead for the Scottish bar.
He was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, of a prosperous family of lighthouse engineers.
Yet despite frequent physical collapses-mainly due to constant respiratory illness-he was an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters, travel books, and children\'s books.
About the Author: Throughout his life, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was tormented by poor health.
David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
Seventeen-year-old David Balfour\'s villainous uncle has him Kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance
