Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession

by RoslynJolly (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $156.88

  Robert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. This work examines the crucial period from 1887 to 1894, focusing on the self-transformation wrought in Stevenson's Pacific travel-writing and political texts.