Birthright
The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped
by A. Roger Ekirch
258 pages· ISBN 9780393066159
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The award-winning author of At Day's Close describes the 18th-century kidnapping of British aristocratic heir James Annesley, which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, and explains how Annesley escaped indentured servitude in America to return to Dublin, bring down his nemesis and reclaim his rightful place in society.
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