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The version I read is the DaCapo Press 2002 paperback, which includes The Amateur Emigrant, Across the Plains, but not The Silvarado Squatters. The first section takes up about 60% of the book, and covers his ten days of sea passage from Scotland to New York. The second section covers his train trip from New York to San Francisco.
30. Juni 2009 · 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 ticket one grade above the lowest price, for which he was later thankful after seeing the conditions in steerage ...
10. März 2002 · Paperback – March 10, 2002. by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Fanny Stevenson (Preface) 3.9 44 ratings. See all formats and editions. This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during a trip to ...
1. Apr. 2023 · urn:lcp:bwb_O8-BTA-599:epub:c1bcd983-cb24-4d5b-9ce0-281d66c2ca42
The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he ...
11. Okt. 2018 · The Amateur Emigrant was written in 1879-80 and was not published in full until 1895, one year after his death.In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson received word that his future American wife's (Fanny Vandegrift) divorce was almost complete and she was ready to remarry, but that she was seriously ill.
An emigrant ship had arrived on the Saturday night; another on the Sunday morning; our own on Sunday afternoon; a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday, a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women and children.
