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The Amateur Emigrant Paperback - 2002

by Robert Louis Stevenson; Preface by Fanny Stevenson


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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. The two had met and fallen in love during a trip to France, but when Fanny's first husband called her home to California, Stevenson soon followed from Scotland. The sickly Stevenson first made a turbulent Atlantic crossing, like so many nineteenth-century immigrants, as a steerage passenger in a steamer of dubious seaworthiness. After a frenetic stopover in New York City, he embarked on a two-week, three-thousand-mile trip across the continentthe fastest and cheapest way then possibleby emigrant train. Finally arriving in the frontier town of San Francisco to win Fanny over, he was quickly captivated by California. Stevenson's often hilarious impressions of the young country, its rambunctious and colorful inhabitants, and the still-untamed continent are among his most vivid writings. "This lighthearted book is the result of a very difficult journey, one that almost killed him."Paul Theroux"

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  • Title The Amateur Emigrant
  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson; Preface by Fanny Stevenson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Carroll & Gr
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press
  • Date 2002-03
  • ISBN 9780786709847 / 0786709847
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.52 x 0.55 in (20.93 x 14.02 x 1.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, Authors, Scottish - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002067422
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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