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Baker's Cottage at Saranac Lake in Upstate New York, where Robert Louis Stevenson enjoyed wealth and improved health after moving to be close to a TB sanitorium. PIC: Contributed.

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Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, a creation of the Stevenson lighthouse building dynasty. PIC: CC.

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Jade Chan as Jim and Amy Conachan as Lean Jean Silver in Treasure Island at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

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Hawaii's King Kalakaua I with Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson on the veranda of the royal boat house at Honolulu in the late 1800s (Picture: Culture Club)

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Alexander McCall Smith Picture: Kirsty Anderson

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Lyon & Turnbull's head of rare books, manuscripts and maps Cathy Marsden takes a close look at the history of the family and a collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse engineer sketches. Picture: Stewart Attwood/Lyon & Turnbull/PA Wire

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Forbes Masson in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

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circa 1890: Scottish novelist, poet and traveller Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Janet Christie in Helensburgh, after completing The John Muir Way, a 134-mile walking route across Scotland. Pic: Kate Dixon

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The Picts acquired a mystical reputation after their supposed disappearance (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Hearts midfielder Robert Snodgrass gave an honest appraisal of the team's recent performances. (Photo by Mark Scates / SNS Group)

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Ryan J Mackay and Malcolm Cumming will be playing Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart in the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production of Kidnapped. Image: Laurence Winram

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Treasure Island at Cumbernauld Theatre PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Ross MacKay on Treasure Island at the Lanternhouse, Cumbernauld

Actor, director and playwright Isobel McArthur and musician, sound designer and composer Michael John McCarthy are leading the creation of the new stage version of Kidnapped for the National Theatre of Scotland.

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Ben Cruachan hydro electric power station in Argyll is one of many renewable energy schemes across Scotland that rely on its abundant water supplies. Picture: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images

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Scottish comic book legend Alan Grant has passed away. Pictue: Julie Bull

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Robert Louis Stevenson PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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