Nonfiction · 1905
Essays of Travel
Essays of Travel, first published in 1905, 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
- I — The Amateur Emigrant
- The Second Cabin
- Early Impressions
- Steerage Scenes
- Steerage Types
- The Sick Man
- The Stowaways
- Personal Experience and Review
- New York
- II
- Cockermouth
- An Evangelist
- Another
- Last of Smethurst
- III
- IV
- V — Forest Notes 1875–6
- In the Season
- Idle Hours
- A Pleasure-Party
- The Woods in Spring
- Morality
- VI
- VII — Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum
- II
- VIII — The Ideal House
- IX — Davos in Winter
- X — Health and Mountains
- XI — Alpine Diversions
- XII — The Stimulation of the Alps
- XIII
- XIV
- Footnotes
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About the author
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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