Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
de Stevenson, Robert Louis
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- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very good, red full-leather binding, gilt titling and decorations on front and spine (spine edges a little fragile), patterned p
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Fine-paper. hardback. Very good, red full-leather binding, gilt titling and decorations on front and spine (spine edges a little fragile), patterned pastedowns, all edges gilt, pages unmarked and tightly bound.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). 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.The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and their passengers the cleanest.
Sinopsis
Leaves from the notebook of an emigrant between New York and San Fancisco
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- Librería
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- IYC53249
- Título
- Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- Autor
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good, red full-leather binding, gilt titling and decorations on front and spine (spine edges a little fragile), patterned p
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Fine-paper
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1910
- Páginas
- 212
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- essays, memoir, travel, pocket, leather-binding, RLStevenson
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_\"\" x 4\"\")
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