The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls
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[...]character that had ever been contemplated up to this time.... "The Atlantic swell, which rendered landing on the ridge precarious and hazardous, did not permit the men to be housed upon a floating home, as had been the practice in the early days of the Bell Rock tower. In order to permit the work to go forward as uninterruptedly as the sea would allow, a peculiar barrack was erected. It was a house on stilts, the legs being sunk firmly into the rock, with the living quarters perched some fifty feet[...].
Chapters (37)
- THE LIFE OF
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
- JACQUELINE M. OVERTON
- NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1933
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
- CHAPTER I
- THE LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS
- CHAPTER II
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- CHAPTER III
- THE LANTERN BEARER
- CHAPTER IV
- EDINBURGH DAYS
- CHAPTER V
- AMATEUR EMIGRANT
- CHAPTER VI
- SCOTLAND AGAIN
- CHAPTER VII
- SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA
- CHAPTER VIII
- IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX
- VAILIMA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SOME WORKS IN RELATION TO STEVENSON'S LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND OTHERS
- GENERAL BIOGRAPHY
- ANCESTORS
- CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-DAYS
- THE STUDENT AND WANDERER
- FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA
- SCOTLAND AGAIN
- SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA
- IN THE SOUTH SEAS
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