Name: Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
Price: 18.75 EUR
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
ISBN: 9781534972551

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Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781534972551

Synopsis "Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays"

Across The Plains with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson. Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and their passengers the cleanest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(Edinburgh, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. He entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of sixteen to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lighthouse engineer, a career he would later abandon. His nautical studies allowed him to come into contact with seafaring people and customs, key ingredients in some of his most famous works. His renowned work, Treasure Island, was published under the pseudonym Captain George North in 1881. In 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the great classics of literature, was released. He died on the island of Samoa, at his home, Vailima.

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