The teller of tales : in search of Robert Louis Stevenson

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The teller of tales : in search of Robert Louis Stevenson

Hunter Davies

Sinclair-Stevenson, c1994

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Description

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.

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  • NCID
    BA24774710
  • ISBN
    • 1856196003
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 290 p., [16] p. of plates
  • Size
    24 cm
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