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Scotland Outdoors

Kidnapped and the Stevenson Way - Part 4

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen follows the route from Balquhidder to Corstorphine in Edinburgh

Transcript

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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:47.9

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Mark Stephen.

0:53.2

Today I'm continuing my journey along the Stevenson Way, following the route to David to this. I'm Mark Stephen. Today I'm continuing my journey along the Stevenson

0:56.5

way, following the route David Balfour and Alan Bregg Stewart took from Erid, assist off

1:01.6

Mull, to Kerstorfen in Edinburgh in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, kidnapped. Now,

1:07.2

though the area are two heroes crossed from Ranak Moore over the tops to to Loch Lime and down here to Bacquidder is enormous

1:13.6

Stevenson actually describes the route in just a couple of pages in Kidnapped. Now this is a much discussed part of the route. Where did Stevenson mean them to go?

1:23.6

Up onto Benmore's, Turbinion, round the bottom, whatever. In the book, it's certainly a miserable time for David.

1:30.3

He was still livid with Alan after he gambled away all his money, including his cave.

1:34.3

He was also becoming increasingly unwell. He says, and I'm quoting here, that he could lie down and die on these wet mountains like a sheep or a fox,

1:42.3

and my bones must whiten there like the bones

1:45.0

of a beast.

1:46.1

Now, things come to a head, and David actually draws his sword on Alan.

1:50.4

Alan, because it's a young man and because he's unwell, can't bring himself to fight him,

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