421706
- TitleRobert Louis Stevenson - The South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises in the Islands ... Pt 1, The Marquesas, ca. 1889
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- Call numberC 233
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
ca. 1889 - Type of material
- Reference code421706
- Issue CopyMicrofilm : C 233)
Partly Digitised : page 1 - Physical Description1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript) - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. After graduating in law in 1874 he turned to writing and travel. His journeys in France and America resulted in several travel books but it was the novels that he began to produce in the 1880s that brought him fame, among them 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped'.
He suffered from fevers and haemorrhages and in 1888 set out on a South Sea voyage hoping to recover his health. In the course of two cruises in the yacht Casco and the trading schooner Equator he visited the Marquesas, Paumotos and Gilbert Islands, Tahiti and Hawaii.
In December 1889 he arrived in Samoa which became his home for the rest of his life. Between 1890 and 1893 he visited Sydney four times. He died in 1894 after suffering a sudden cerebral haemorrhage. - Scope and ContentManuscript account of a voyage made by Stevenson among the Marquesas Islands in the yacht Casco in 1888. It was published in 1896, with an additional chapter, as the first part of 'In the South Seas...'
- Finding AidsTranscript of first page available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/a128473.html
- General note
This item has been preserved and partly digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
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