Robert Louis Stevenson investigates into the nature of good and evil in this novel set in the Scotland of 1745.
This was the year many in Scotland fought to put a Scottish king on the British throne.
Two brothers, James and Henry Durie, become involved in this historical event.
But The Master of Ballantrae is a also worldwide novel.
Readers will travel from Scotland to New York, to India… Along the way, they will meet soldiers, hunters and pirates.