Name: Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays (in English)
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
ISBN: 9781534972551

portada Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781534972551

Synopsis "Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays (in English)"

Across The Plains with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson. Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and their passengers the cleanest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(Edimburgo, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) Novelista, cuentista, poeta y ensayista británico. Ingresó en la Universidad de Edimburgo cuando tenía dieciséis años para poder seguir los pasos de su padre y convertirse en ingeniero de faros, de lo cual desistiría. Sus estudios de náutica, le permitieron entrar en contacto con las gentes y costumbres marineras, ingredientes fundamentales en algunas de sus obras más conocidas. Su famosa obra, La Isla del tesoro, la publicó bajo el seudónimo de Captain George North en 1881. En 1886, llegaría El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde, uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura. Murió en la Isla de Samoa, en su casa, Vailima.

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