Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : Monterey (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Across the Plains
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monterey (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Across the Plains
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor.
Across the Plains
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Sheba Blake Publishing
ISBN: 3986779205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Although he is now best remembered for rip-roaring adventure novels like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson was a well-regarded travel writer during his lifetime. In Across the Plains, Stevenson recounts his experiences traveling in the United States in a series of fascinating and detailed essays.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
Author: Robert Louis ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Across the Plains
Author: Dr Robert StevensonPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142501254X
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This is a story of a young man who looked for his brother's executioner. The novel is set in the backdrop of Stevenson's experience of traveling from New York City to California. The vivid description of landscape and scenic beauty makes the novel interesting and enjoyable. Moreover the character portrayal is life-like and gripping....
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert StevensonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985760738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Traveller and student and curious as you are, you will never have heard the name of Vailima, most likely not even that of Upolu, and Samoa itself may be strange to your ears. To these barbaric seats there came the other day a yellow book with your name on the title, and filled in every page with the exquisite gifts of your art. Let me take and change your own words: J'ai beau admirer les autres de toutes mes forces, c'est avez vous que je me complais à vivre.
Across the Plains with other Memories and Essays
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387001088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays (Annotated)
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective.Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.it is a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. He reviews his 1879 trip to California, very costly for his health. First published as a series of articles in Longman's Magazine in July and August 1883, the story appears in the volume in Chatto & Windus in 1892. .Having completed the Atlantic crossing from Glasgow, under the conditions described in The Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson arrived in New York, traversing the United States from east to west to reach San Francisco, California, after a twelve-day train journey .
Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
Author: Robert StevensonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986727976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays is a collection of memoirs and essays by the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection includes: Across the Plains The Old Pacific Capital Fontainebleau Epilogue to "An Inland Voyage" Random Memories Random Memories Continued The Lantern-bearers A Chapter on Dreams Beggars Letter to a Young Gentleman Pulvis et Umbra A Christmas Sermon Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
Author: Robert Louis Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781521160510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains is Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his journey from New York to California by train in 1879-1880. It also contains other travel essays by the great writer. 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 (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".