What a glorious adventure story this book is!
I absolutely loved it. The characters are astonishingly vivid and memorable--not only David and Alan but even rhose who play a more transient role such as the various individuals the duo meet on their travels. The rugged Scottish Highland landscape is almost a character in itself and plays no small part in the activities and adventures of the pair. Both the kidnap plot and the murder of the Red Fox have roots in actual events but Stevenson has merged them into a magnificent srory. Only the ambiguous ending was a drawback for me, but Stevenson was obviously preparing for a sequel which he wrote a few years later.