The Amateur Emigrant and the Silverado Squatters

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The Amateur Emigrant and the Silverado Squatters
Folio Society
Literature

The Amateur Emigrant and the Silverado Squatters

Robert Louis Stevenson
Edition year 1991
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 231
Dimensions 24.8 × 16.8 cm

Edition details

Amateur Emigrant and the Silverado Squatters, The - Robert Louis Stevenson. Introduced by James Michie. 14 leaves of reproductions of contemporary photographs and prints. Bound in dark red cloth with a wrap-around contemporary wood-engraving in black. Map endleaves printed maroon on grey. Black slipcase. 24.8x16.8cm. 231pp

About the book

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant records his journey from Europe to America in 1879, travelling alongside emigrants seeking new lives across the Atlantic. Rather than travelling in comfort, Stevenson deliberately shared the conditions of ordinary passengers, giving him a close view of their hopes, hardships and personalities. The Silverado Squatters recounts a later period spent with his wife in an abandoned mining camp in California's Napa Valley. Together, the two works combine travel, autobiography and social observation, revealing Stevenson's curiosity about people and places as well as his gift for vivid and engaging description.

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