The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 1991. Book is Near Fine. The slipcase is Very Good. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, good tips, and clean, unmarred boards. The textblock has two faint horizontal creases to the edge of page 12, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Over 25 pages of black and white photos and illustrations. Map endpapers. Introduction by James Michie. The slipcase is very good with light wear and a few faint scuffs. 231 pages. 6¼"x 9½" tall.
"The Amateur Emigrant," an autobiographical account of Stevenson's voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism. It describes vividly how Stevenson mixed with 'steerage' passengers aboard an Atlantic steamship and experienced the indignities of a transcontinental emigrant train.
"The Silverado Squatters" is Stevenson's travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado."
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3793
- Title
- The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Folio Society
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 231
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.5
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- folio society, slipcase, travel, autobiography, immigration, american west
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- The Folio Society;
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