Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays

Robert Louis Stevenson

Cosimo Classics, 1892 - 286 psl.

"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.

Turinys

• I: 11
• 2: 17
• THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL: 78
• 3: 105
• EPILOGUE TO AN INLAND VOYAGE: 136
• RANDOM MEMORIES: 158
• 7: 191
• 8: 211
• 9: 232
• II: 262
• 12: 273

Apie autorių

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

Bibliografinė informacija

• Pavadinimas: Across the Plains– With Other Memories and Essays; 2818 tomas iš Collection of British and American authors; 2818 tomas iš Collection of British authors; 2818 tomas iš Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition. vol. 2818; 2818 tomas iš Tauchnitz edition
• Autorius: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Leidėjas: Cosimo Classics, 1892
• Originalas iš: Mičigano universitetas
• Pakeista skaitmenine forma: 26 gegužės 2007
• ISBN: 1646794478, 9781646794478
• Ilgis: 286 psl.