Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains is Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his journey from New York to California by train in 1879-1880. It also contains other travel essays by the great writer. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigra...
Chapters (49)
- ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH OTHER MEMORIES AND ESSAYS
- TO PAUL BOURGET
- LETTER TO THE AUTHOR
- CONTENTS
- I ACROSS THE PLAINS
- The Emigrant Train
- The Plains of Nebraska
- The Desert of Wyoming
- Fellow-Passengers
- Despised Races
- To the Golden Gates
- II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL
- The Woods and the Pacific
- Mexicans, Americans, and Indians
- III FONTAINEBLEAU Village Communities of Painters
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- IV EPILOGUE TO “AN INLAND VOYAGE” [95]
- V RANDOM MEMORIES
- I.—The Coast of Fife
- VI RANDOM MEMORIES
- II.—The Education of an Engineer
- VII THE LANTERN-BEARERS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- VIII A CHAPTER ON DREAMS
- IX BEGGARS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART
- XI PULVIS ET UMBRA
- I
- II
- XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- FOOTNOTES
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