Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Length6h 24m
About this audiobook
This volume consists largely of Stevenson's thoughts as he journeyed by train in 1879 from New York to San Francisco, in pursuit of the American woman he had recently met on the Continent (and who was to become his wife). Also included are his subsequent impressions of the city of Monterey.
Audiobook details
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GenreLiterary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TO PAUL BOURGET
23VI RANDOM MEMORIES: II.—The Education of an Engineer
2LETTER TO THE AUTHOR
24VII THE LANTERN-BEARERS
3I ACROSS THE PLAINS
25I
4The Emigrant Train
26II
5The Plains of Nebraska
27III
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6The Desert of Wyoming
28IV
7Fellow-Passengers
29VIII A CHAPTER ON DREAMS
8Despised Races
30IX BEGGARS
9To the Golden Gates
31I
10II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL
32II
11The Woods and the Pacific
33III
12Mexicans, Americans, and Indians
34IV
13III FONTAINEBLEAU Village Communities of Painters
35V
14I
36X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART
15II
37XI PULVIS ET UMBRA
16III
38I
17IV
39II
18V
40XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON
19VI
41I
20VII
42II
21IV EPILOGUE TO “AN INLAND VOYAGE” [95]
43III
22V RANDOM MEMORIES: I.—The Coast of Fife
44IV
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