I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house". So begins one of the greatest tales in literature, an account of David Balfour's trials and tribulations as he falls foul of his miserly uncle who has him abducted on board ship in order to steal his inheritance. After rescuing Alan Breck on the high seas they are shipwrecked, witness a murder and are themselves suspected, effect a hazardous escape and exact revenge on the wicked Ebenezer thereby regaining David's rightful legacy. "In one of my books and in one only, the characters took the bit in their teeth… they turned their backs on me and walked off bodily; and from that time my task was stenographic - it was they who spoke, it was they who wrote the remainder of the story" - R.L. Stevenson

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	7 hrs 45 mins

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	7	5
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-105CD	VI-105TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 058 6	978 1 86015 437 9
Price	£21.49	£17.99

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 –1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer born in Edinburgh. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were distinguished lighthouse designers and engineers. It was from this side of the family that he inherited his love of adventure, joy of the sea and for the open road. He was encouraged to play outside, where he proved to be a wild and carefree child, and by the age of eleven his health had improved so that his parents prepared him for the University of Edinburgh by attending Edinburgh Academy, planning for him to follow his father as a lighthouse engineer. He soon discovered he had neither the scientific mind nor physical endurance to succeed as an engineer. When his father took him for a voyage he found - instead of being interested in lighthouse construction - that his mind was teeming with wonderful romances about the coast and islands which they visited. After finishing his degree his father finally allowed him to decide on a career in literature.

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