JOURNEY TO UPOLU : Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian rebel

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Archival Photographs & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. 1974 First Edition, First Thus. Yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; price-clipped; strong & sound w/edge wear. Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, poet & travel writer known for Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, and, A Child's Garden of Verses. Brooklyn. N.Y. born author, publisher, photojournalist & painter Edward J. Rice (1918 - 2001) wrote some 20 books, including the biography of his close Columbia Univ. "buddy" Thomas Merton, and that of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, founded (1953) the Jubilee magazine. Here, he reviews original historical sources to tell the life story of physically frail Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) and his American wife, Fanny Van der Grift Osborne (1880-1914), years his senior but outlives him --- both, being adventurous, eager, curious, friendly, hardworking roamers, were true-blue American frontier people in spirit --- and their two children, Lloyd and Belle. 145 pgs w/archival photos & illustrations, in 8 chapters: 1, Introduction; 2, A Child Alone; 3, Velvet Coat; 4, The Vandergrifter; 5, An Inland Voyage; 6, The Amateur Emigrant; 7, The South Seas; and 8, A Footnote to History.