A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

Robert Louis Stevenson was known in Samoa as Tusitala, the teller of tales. In A Footnote To History, however, he comes very close to the truth. This is an eyewitness account of the battle of the three great Western nations of the time (Germany, Britain and the U.S.) for control of Samoa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788829594931
Publisher:	iOnlineShopping.com
Publication date:	01/12/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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).

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875