Barry Menikoff: On The Road with David Balfour
Causewayside Buildings, National Library of Scotland
Salisbury Place, Edinburgh
7pm
Free but ticketed
Kevin Williamson, the editor of the Rebel, Inc. imprint, will be talking with Professor Barry Menikoff about his extensive research into the life and works of RL Stevenson, including his introduction to and role in editing the Canongate Classic edition of Kidnapped.
Prof Menikoff, of the University of Hawaii, is the author of Narrating Scotland: The Imagination Of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Booking: Call the NLS on 0131 623 3845 or email events@nls.uk
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'Kidnapped' is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. David Balfour sets off to find his last remaining relatives, but is tricked into boarding a ship, and finds himself bound for slavery in Carolina. -
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Barry Menikoff contends that Robert Louis Stevenson was a serious student of Scottish history and culture and that in 'Kidnapped' and 'David Balfour', he imaginatively reconstructed that culture for the sake of his nation, and its posterity.