Can I gorget that I have been branded as an outlaw, stigmatized as a traitor, a price set on my head as if I had been a wolf...' Scott's young hero Francis Osbaldistone is plunged into the intrigue and adventure of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion when he is falsely accused of highway robbery on his journey to the North of England. In his fight for both love and justice he must outwit his villainous cousin, Rashleigh, and travel to Scotland - aland of breathtaking beauty and dark foreboding - where his salvation can only be obtained with the help of the greatest outlaw of all, Robert Roy Cambell MacGregor. Published in 1817 to wild popular success, Rob Roy contains two of Scott's most appealing and romantic figures, the wonderfully sharp - tobgued and tender - hearted Diana Vernon and the ' Robin Hood of Scotland', Rob Roy