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The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook

The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral United StatesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1646794605
ISBN13: 9781646794607
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jan 1 1895
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man.

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant


This jacketed hardcover edition of The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.

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