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Hello and welcome to episode two of our Kidnap series in Scotland Outdoors.

I'm Mark Stephen.

In this series, I'm following the route taken by the main character, Davy Balfour,

in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Kidnap. Now, we recorded this back in 2012 when the new

Stevenson Way was launched. It's a wilderness walking route from Erid, off the island of Mull,

all the way across Scotland to Edinburgh. In the first episode, we were on edit, where Davy was shipwrecked in the book. Now, this was a wheel kent place to Robert Louis Stevenson, as it's where he spent time with his family,

who used it as a base for building lighthouses.

He wasn't too keen on building lighthouses, as we'll hear shortly.

In this episode, we actually reach Appen, where the famous murder took place place which really lies at the heart of the narrative if kidnapped.

Now, you'll have gathered there's a lot of interweaving of real events and places in amongst the fictional with all of this.

So let's just start with some facts as shared by historian and writer Ian Nimmo.

Right from the start, Stevenson was a sickly little boy,

racked by coughing, temperatures, and in Scots, we might have called him a bit shilpet.

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