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On the afternoon of 7 August 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on the steamship the SS Devonia at Greenock, on the west coast of Scotland, and began the ten-day passage across the Atlantic. After the crossing, he spent one night in New York, and then made the transcontinental rail journey, arriving in California on 30 August, more than ...
The Amateur Emigrant charts Stevenson’s journey from Scotland to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Osbourne, an American woman who was in the throes of arranging her divorce. Cut off from his family on account of this unrespectable romantic alliance, Stevenson travelled not only out of his country but out of his class. His desire to travel steerage class across the Atlantic, rather than ...
After a frenetic stopover in New York City, he embarked on a two-week, three-thousand-mile trip across the continent—the fastest and cheapest way then possible—by emigrant train. Finally arriving in the frontier town of San Francisco to win Fanny over, he was quickly captivated by California. Stevenson's often hilarious impressions of the ...
When Stevenson arrived in the United States, he immediately boarded a railroad to California, observing the vast country during his transcontinental journey. A marvelously well-written travelogue, The Amateur Emigrant is one of the best accounts of the increasingly popular 19th-century adventure of Europeans sailing to the New World and ...
The Amateur Emigrant. "The Amateur Emigrant" is a remarkable account of Stevenson's nautical journey from Scotland to California. He has vividly sketched the hazards of racial and social class distinction in British and American societies. The work is a testament to his keen insight and perception. A true classic itinerary!
Other articles where The Amateur Emigrant is discussed: Robert Louis Stevenson: Early life: …arduous journey appeared later in The Amateur Emigrant, 1895, and Across the Plains, 1892). His adventures, which included coming very near death and eking out a precarious living in Monterey and San Francisco, culminated in marriage to Fanny Osbourne (who was by then divorced from her first husband ...
The Amateur Emigrant. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was convinced by friends to purchase a ...
