Nonfiction · 1892
A Footnote to History
Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
A Footnote to History, first published in 1892, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I — The Elements of Discord: Native
- Chapter II — The Elements of Discord: Foreign
- Chapter III — The Sorrows of Laupepa, 1883 to 1887
- Chapter IV — Brandeis
- Chapter V — The Battle of Matautu
- Chapter VI — Last Exploits of Becker
- Chapter VII — The Samoan Camps
- Chapter VIII — Affairs of Laulii and Fangalii
- Chapter IX — “Furor Consularis”
- Chapter X — The Hurricane
- Chapter XI — Laupepa and Mataafa
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1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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