Best known for his fiction writing, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and travel writer. His first major work was An Inland Voyage, an account of his journey by canoe from Antwerp to northern France. The companion work to...
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Best known for his fiction writing, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and travel writer. His first major work was An Inland Voyage, an account of his journey by canoe from Antwerp to northern France. The companion work to this, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), is widely regarded as a travel-writing classic. June Skinner Sawyers has brought together the most comprehensive and representative sampling of Robert Louis Stevenson's prolific travel output, including excerpts from his most famous travel books, travel essays and travel poetry. The result is a co
Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chronology; Introduction; Scotland; On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places; FROM Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes; The Foreigner at Home; Memoirs of an Islet; The Manse: A FRAGMENT; The Lantern-Bearers; Contributions to the History of Fife:; Sing Me a Song of a Lad that is Gone; A Winter's Walk in Carrick and Galloway; The Light-Keeper; England; Roads; Cockermouth and Keswick; An Autumn Effect; France and Belgium; Ordered South; Forest Notes; In the Latin Quarter; FROM An Inland Voyage; FROM Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes; Fontainebleau; America
FROM The Amateur EmigrantAcross the Plains; The Old Pacific Capital; Simoneau's at Monterey; San Francisco; FROM The Silverado Squatters; Winter; Switzerland; Davos in Winter; Health and Mountains; The Stimulation of the Alps; The South Seas; FROM Travels in Hawaii; FROM In the South Seas; Miscellaneous; Walking Tours; From a Railway Carriage; Evensong; Further Reading; STEVENSON: SELECTED WORKS; COLLECTED EDITIONS; Appendix; HISTORIC SITES AND LANDMARKS; MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES; ORGANISATIONS, etc; MUSIC INSPIRED BY RLS;
