Across the Plains Robert Louis Stevenson's Classic Account of Crossing America by Emigrant Train
-
- Hardcover
- Taschenbuch ausgewählt
- eBook
-
Sprache:Englisch
-
Verlag:Black Curtain Press
- Black Curtain Press 16,99 € ausgewählt
- Outlook 34,90 €
- Akasha Classics 19,99 €
- Cambridge Academic 61,99 €
- Alpha Editions 24,99 €
- Tredition 14,90 €
- Bibliotech Pr 19,99 €
- Stevenson Press 26,99 €
- Creative Media Partners, LLC 27,99 €
- 1St World Library 19,99 €
- Cosimo Classics 22,99 €
- Hansebooks 22,90 €
- Kessinger Publishing, LLC 34,99 €
16,99 €
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.11.2013
Verlag
Black Curtain PressSeitenzahl
116
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,7 cm
Gewicht
181 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-62755-447-3
Robert Louis Stevenson crosses America by emigrant train in one of his sharpest and most revealing works of travel writing. Across the Plains follows Stevenson's 1879 journey from New York to California, a hard westward passage made in poor health, among immigrants, laborers, strangers, and fellow travelers packed into the rough conditions of nineteenth-century railway travel. What might have been a simple travel account becomes something richer: a record of landscape, discomfort, social observation, prejudice, endurance, and the restless promise of America. The full collection, Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays, brings together travel writing, memoir, literary reflection, and personal essays. Alongside the title account are pieces on Monterey, Fontainebleau, childhood memory, dreams, art, poverty, and moral imagination. Stevenson's prose is vivid, humane, ironic, and unsentimental, moving easily from physical detail to philosophical reflection. The book shows a different side of the author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: the essayist, traveler, observer, and craftsman of lived experience. First published in book form in 1892, Across the Plains stands as the middle section of Stevenson's American travel sequence, between The Amateur Emigrant and The Silverado Squatters. The title essay had earlier appeared in Longman's Magazine in 1883, under the fuller title "Across the Plains: Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant Between New York and San Francisco."
Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für dein Feedback
Wir nutzen dein Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte habe Verständnis, dass wir dir keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls du Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchtest, kannst du dich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice