Copyright

First published as a Canongate Classic in 1995
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE

Reprinted 1996 and 1999

This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books Ltd

Introductions copyright © Jenni Calder, 1989,
Roderick Watson, 1992 and 1995

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

Cover illustration is reprinted with the permission of
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing from Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth,
copyright © Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913;
copyright renewed 1941, N.C. Wyeth

The publishers gratefully acknowledge general
subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council towards
the Canongate Classics series and a specific
grant towards the publication of this title

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library

ISBN: 978 1 84767 559 0