Short excerpt: I am sure I sat for an hour in the baggage- room, and wretched enough it was; yet, when at last the word was passed to me and I picked up my bundles and got under way, it was only to exchange discomfort for downright misery and danger.
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Around the time he set off for the South Seas, the celebrated Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson arranged for his friend the art historian Sidney Colvin to select and organise the essays in this 1892 volume. They mostly date from the 1880s and originally appeared in magazines, including Scribner's.
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- The North Sea: Heine's Poem (Open Court Paperbacks) by Heinrich Heine on page 87
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Works, Travels, Friends and Commentators by George E. Brown on 17 pages
- Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman on 5 pages
- Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads by Dee Brown on 4 pages
- Robert Louis Stevenson in California by Katharine D. Osbourne on 4 pages
- History of Dreams by A. J. J. Ratcliff on page 184, page 192, and page 205
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