Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson

Rare, Collectable, Folios | Non Fiction | Travel, Guides, Exploration, Walking, Adventure, Atlases

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. This book, Stevenson's memoir of his immigrant experiences in America describing his arrival in New York and his journey to San Francisco, contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself.
Chapters - Across the plains. The old Pacific capital [Monterey], Fontainebleau. Epilogue to 'An inland voyage.' Random memories. Random memories continued. The lantern-bearers. A chapter on dreams. Beggars. Letter to a young gentleman. Pulvis et umbra. A Christmas sermon.

Fair to good condition. Pages, cover, spine - intact and sound. Tanning on front and back pages, notes on inside front cover in pencil, name inscribed in pen at top of first page. Cover - green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, and embossed title on front cover -fading/scuffing and bumping wear at edges of cover, and small (probably ink) stain on top edge of front cover and paper edges.