Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel Sketches, Memoirs & Island Literature (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Autobiographical Writings and EssaysBy Robert Louis Stevenson
Length53h 23m
About this audiobook
Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel Sketches, Memoirs & Island Literature gathers the restless geography of Stevenson's imagination: essays of movement, autobiographical recollection, and writings shaped by the Pacific world. The volume reveals his supple prose at its most observant—lucid, ironic, sensuous, and morally alert—moving between the nineteenth-century tradition of the travel sketch and the emerging modern literature of displacement, colonial encounter, and self-fashioning. Its island pieces in particular complicate exotic romance with ethnographic curiosity and political unease. Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 1850, was formed by chronic illness, legal training, Calvinist inheritance, and a lifelong resistance to settled respectability. His journeys through Europe, America, and finally the South Seas were not mere excursions but conditions of authorship: travel offered him climates for survival, subjects for art, and vantage points from which to scrutinize empire, memory, and identity. His final Samoan years deepened his engagement with island societies and colonial power. This collection is recommended to readers who know Stevenson only through adventure fiction, as well as to scholars of travel writing, autobiography, and Pacific literature. It discloses a writer whose elegance serves inquiry, and whose wandering becomes a disciplined form of knowledge.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (12)
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GenreTravel
Length53 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6An Inland Voyage
7DEDICATION
8ANTWERP TO BOOM
9ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL
10THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE
11AT MAUBEUGE
12ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED - TO QUARTES
13PONT-SUR-SAMBRE - WE ARE PEDLARS
14PONT-SUR-SAMBRE - THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT
15ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED TO LANDRECIES
16AT LANDRECIES
17SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL
18THE OISE IN FLOOD
19ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE – A BY-DAY
20ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE THE COMPANY AT TABLE
21DOWN THE OISE TO MOY
22LA FÈRE OF CURSED MEMORY
23DOWN THE OISE THROUGH THE GOLDEN VALLEY
24NOYON CATHEDRAL
25DOWN THE OISE TO COMPIÈGNE
26AT COMPIÈGNE
27CHANGED TIMES
28DOWN THE OISE CHURCH INTERIORS
29PRÉCY AND THE MARIONNETTES
30BACK TO THE WORLD
31EPILOGUE
32Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
33THE DONKEY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE
34THE GREEN DONKEY-DRIVER
35I HAVE A GOAD
36UPPER GÉVAUDAN
37A CAMP IN THE DARK
38CHEYLARD AND LUC
39OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS
40FATHER APOLLONARIS
41THE MONKS
42THE BOARDERS
43UPPER GÉVAUDAN
44ACROSS THE GOULET
45A NIGHT AMONG THE PINES
46THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS
47ACROSS THE LOZÈRE
48PONT DE MONTVERT
49IN THE VALLEY OF THE TARN
50FLORAC
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