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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.
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.
Jun 30, 2009 · Listen to Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his travel in steerage class to California in 1879. This LibriVox recording is read by Annise and available for free download or streaming.
Apr 1, 2023 · the amateur emigrant. by. robert louis stevenson. Publication date. 1895. Publisher. stone and kimball. Collection. internetarchivebooks.
The Amateur Emigrant. Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (Preface) 3.55. 264 ratings39 reviews. This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny.
Oct 28, 2018 · The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook— The Second Cabin 3 Early Impressions 11 Steerage Scenes 21 ...
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.
