This is an account of the last years of Robert Louis Stevenson's life and his death in Samoa. It explores Stevenson's desperate search for health and the fulfilment of his lifelong ambition of crossing oceans in tall ships. It examines daily living on commercial sailing vessels between 1888 and 1890, as well as life on the South Pacific islands that Stevenson visited in the late 1880s. There are contemporary photographs and line drawings of the ships that Stevenson sailed on, and tales of colourful characters such as ...
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This is an account of the last years of Robert Louis Stevenson's life and his death in Samoa. It explores Stevenson's desperate search for health and the fulfilment of his lifelong ambition of crossing oceans in tall ships. It examines daily living on commercial sailing vessels between 1888 and 1890, as well as life on the South Pacific islands that Stevenson visited in the late 1880s. There are contemporary photographs and line drawings of the ships that Stevenson sailed on, and tales of colourful characters such as beachcombers, and island potentates and their subjects.
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I am an RLS expert and know my stuff. This has to be the worst RLS related book I have ever read and I've read most of them. It is so full of anomalies resulting from poor research of well recorded facts that for anyone who knows anything about RLS if becomes impossible almost to read., except for the fun of finding the next error. And for anyone who doesn't know RLS please don't take the book seriously. Example:
At one point he places Belle (RLS step-daughter)with RLS and wife on the ss LUdgate Hill and some pages on puts here where she really is, at this point of time, in Hawaii'; there's more true fact in my novel about him. How does this kind of work get published? Is it because the publisher does not know anything about RLS and trusts the author too much. Despite all that he does write the story in an interesting manner which is very readable. Shame about the content.
