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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.
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The Amateur Emigrant. Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (Preface) 3.56. 262 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.
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May 28, 2018 · The Amateur Emigrant By Robert Louis Stevenson The Amateur Emigrant is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. It is not a...
Apr 5, 2022 · 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. It describes vividly how Stevenson mixed with ‘steerage’ passengers aboard an Atlantic steamship and experienced the indignities of a ...
Apr 1, 2023 · the amateur emigrant. by. robert louis stevenson. Publication date. 1895. Publisher. stone and kimball. Collection. internetarchivebooks.
"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...
