Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

"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

This jacketed hardcover edition of 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646794485
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

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

Table of Contents

1. Across the plains; 2. The old Pacific capital; 3. Fontainebleau; 4. Epilogue to 'An inland voyage'; 5. Random memories; 6. Random memories continued; 7. The lantern-bearers; 8. A chapter on dreams; 9. Beggars; 10. Letter to a young gentleman; 11. Pulvis et umbra sumus; 12. A Christmas sermon.