The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson

by HunterDavies (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.25

  Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name, as well as bequeathing it one of his best-known observations, to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive . He is best-known for his literary journeys into the past, in such books as Kidnapped and Treasure Island ; but he also travelled in real life, on a donkey in the Cevennes, and finally across the Pacific to Samoa, where he died on 3 December 1894. Hunter Davies retraces Stevenson's steps in this part travelogue, part biography, visiting those places which will always be associated with him; from his birthplace in Edinburgh, to France, California, and then his final home in the Pacific, on the island of Samoa.

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  Robert Louis Stevenson was an influential travel writer, who said to travel hopefully is better than to arrive . He is best-known for his literary travels in the past, in such books as Kidnapped and Treasure Island ; but he also travelled in real life, on a donkey in the Cevennes and across the Pacific to Samoa, where he died on 3 December 1894. Hunter Davies retraces Stevenson's steps in this book, which is part travelogue, part biography, and visits Stevenson's haunts from Edinburgh to France, and from California to his resting-place in the Pacific, seeking out the man and his motivation.