Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession
by
Roslyn Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Robert Louis Stevenson's departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father's death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of...