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The Amateur Emigrant (in full: The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook) is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. It is not a complete account, covering the first third, by ship from Europe to New York City.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1895
The Amateur Emigrant, 1895. Read the Virtual Book. Summary. Stevenson’s journey to late nineteenth-century America was an immersion course in the privation and misery of emigrant steam and rail travel. It was a chastening corrective to Stevenson’s romantic view of the New World.
1 de abr. de 2023 · the amateur emigrant. by. robert louis stevenson. Publication date. 1895. Publisher. stone and kimball. Collection. internetarchivebooks.
30 de jun. de 2009 · Read by Annise. In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared.
Some of the happiest times Robert Louis Stevenson spent in France were at the Bohemian artists' colony at Grez. It was here he met his future wife, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, an American who had come to France to study art and escape from an unhappy marriage. Fanny returned to the United States.
5 de abr. de 2022 · The 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.
28 de mai. de 2018 · The Amateur Emigrant By Robert Louis Stevenson The Amateur Emigrant is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his journey from Scotland to California in...
