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One of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser known works tells the tale of the conflict between two Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. When Bonnie Prince Charlie raises the banner of the Stuarts, the Durie family—the Laird of Durrisdeer, his older son James Durie (the Master of Ballantrae) and his younger son Henry Durie—decide on a common strategy: one son will join the uprising while the other will join the loyalists. That way, whichever side wins, the family’s noble status and estate will be preserved. This edition was published in 1924 and was the first Tusitala edition published by William Heinemann. There is some fading to the cover but the inside pages are unblemished.
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