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October 26, 2014
Books you might like: Reader recommendations
October 18, 2014
Travel Quotation
�I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.�
―Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand, 1873
―Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand, 1873
October 11, 2014
Book Review
From Scotland to Silverado. Comprising The Amateur Emigrant, The Silverado Squatters, & Four Essays on California
By Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by James D. Hart. The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1966.
In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left his native Scotland on a journey to California to meet up with Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, a married woman whom he had met and fallen in love with several years before, and whom he would eventually marry. In The Amateur Emigrant, he describes his...
By Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by James D. Hart. The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1966.
In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left his native Scotland on a journey to California to meet up with Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, a married woman whom he had met and fallen in love with several years before, and whom he would eventually marry. In The Amateur Emigrant, he describes his...
September 23, 2014
Book Review
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes
By Robert Louis Stevenson. First published 1879.
In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his twenties, set out from the village of Le Monastier to travel south through the Cevennes, the mountain range of south-central France. Determined to try to camp out, he had a sleeping sack constructed and then acquired a donkey to carry it.
The sleeping sack was a novelty��a child of my invention,� as he calls it. But he himself, as he observes, was a novelty. �A tr...
By Robert Louis Stevenson. First published 1879.
In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his twenties, set out from the village of Le Monastier to travel south through the Cevennes, the mountain range of south-central France. Determined to try to camp out, he had a sleeping sack constructed and then acquired a donkey to carry it.
The sleeping sack was a novelty��a child of my invention,� as he calls it. But he himself, as he observes, was a novelty. �A tr...
