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The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Amateur Emigrant, by Robert Louis Stevenson( )
Author: Stevenson, R. L.
Editor: Reid, Julia
Series title:The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7486-6974-5
Publication Date:Mar 2018
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Book Format:Book
List Price:USD $125.00
Book Description:

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 transcontinental emigrant train. The Amateur Emigrant engages critically with Victorian ideas about class, race, and gender, and makes an important...
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Book Details
Pages:268
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.6 x 5.4 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:0.999 Pounds



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