The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson / / R. L. Stevenson, Julia Reid.
Definitive modern edition of Stevenson’s intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to CaliforniaThe Amateur Emigrant, an autobiographical account of Stevenson’s voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by the General Editors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introduction
- HEADNOTE
- TO ROBERT ALAN STEVENSON
- PART I The Emigrant Ship
- The Second Cabin
- Early Impressions
- Steerage Scenes
- Steerage Scenes
- The Sick Man
- The Stowaways
- Personal Experience and Review
- PART II America: The Emigrant Train
- New York
- Notes by the Way to Council Bluffs
- The Emigrant Train
- The Plains of Nebraska
- The Desert of Wyoming
- Fellow Passengers
- Despised Races
- To the Golden Gates
- Appendix
- Essay on the Text
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes