Essays of Travel.
Title:
Essays of Travel.
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
ISBN:
9781776518265
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- I - The Amateur Emigrant -- II - Cockermouth and Keswick -- III - An Autumn Effect -- IV - A Winter's Walk in Carrick and Galloway -- V - Forest Notes -- VI - A Mountain Town in France -- VII - Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum -- VIII - The Ideal House -- IX - Davos in Winter -- X - Health and Mountains -- XI - Alpine Diversions -- XII - The Stimulation of the Alps -- XIII - Roads -- XIV - On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
Any reader who has spent some time with Robert Louis Stevenson's body of work won't be surprised to learn that the Scottish author was an inveterate traveler and world explorer from early adulthood. Later in life, the chronically ill author lived in locales around the globe in an attempt to find a home that was amenable to his ailing health. The collection Essays of Travel brings together some of Stevenson's finest essays, short memoirs, and other works that detail his thoughts on...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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