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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
- 288
- 1895
- 1 November 1885
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.
30 de jun. de 2009 · English. LibriVox recording of The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 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.
The amateur emigrant 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.
Publication date. 1984. Topics. Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Travel -- United States, Scots -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography, Ocean travel, United States -- Description and travel. Publisher. London : Hogarth Press.
5 de abr. de 2022 · Overview. Contents. About this book. Definitive modern edition of Stevenson’s intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California. 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.
"The Amateur Emigrant" is a remarkable account of Stevenson's nautical journey from Scotland to California. He has vividly sketched the hazards of racial and social class distinction in...
