Dreams Of Elsewhere: The Selected Travel Writings Of Robert Louis Stevenson,9781903238691

Dreams Of Elsewhere: The Selected Travel Writings Of Robert Louis Stevenson

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ISBN13: 9781903238691
ISBN10: 1903238692
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-31
Publisher(s): Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Summary

The most comprehensive and representative sampling of Stevenson's prolific travel output from his travel books, essays, and poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Foreword by Gavin Bell xiii
Chronology xv
Introduction xix
Scotland 1(62)
On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places
3(6)
from Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
9(5)
The Foreigner at Home
14(8)
Memoirs of an Islet
22(5)
The Manse: A Fragment
27(5)
The Lantern-Bearers
32(4)
Contributions to the History of Fife: Random Memories
36(8)
The Education of an Engineer: More Random Memories
44(7)
Sing Me a Song of a Lad That is Gone
51(2)
A Winter's Walk in Carrick and Galloway: A Fragment
53(7)
The Light-Keeper
60(3)
England 63(28)
Roads
65(5)
Cockermouth and Keswick
70(7)
An Autumn Effect
77(14)
France and Belgium 91(80)
Ordered South
93(9)
Forest Notes
102(17)
In the Latin Quarter
119(4)
from An Inland Voyage
123(18)
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
141(17)
Fontainebleau
158(13)
America 171(86)
from The Amateur Emigrant
173(10)
Across the Plains
183(28)
The Old Pacific Capital
211(12)
Simoneau's at Monterey
223(5)
San Francisco
228(6)
from The Silverado Squatters
234(22)
Winter
256(1)
Switzerland 257(12)
Davos in Winter
259(3)
Health and Mountains
262(3)
The Stimulation of the Alps
265(4)
The South Seas 269(32)
from Travels in Hawaii
271(9)
from In the South Seas
280(21)
Miscellaneous 301(12)
Walking Tours
303(6)
From a Railway Carriage
309(1)
Evensong
310(3)
Further Reading 313(8)
Appendix 321

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