Across the Plains - Robert Louis Stevenson - Books - Cosimo Classics - 9781646794485 - December 13, 1901
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Across the Plains

Robert Louis Stevenson

Across the Plains

"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.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 13, 1901
ISBN13 9781646794485
Publishers Cosimo Classics
Pages 226
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 16 mm   ·   421 g
Language English  

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