Ballads
Robert Louis Stevenson
Long narrative poems drawn from Polynesian legend and Scottish history, such as The Song of Rahero and Ticonderoga. Storytelling in verse from his years in the Pacific.
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Songs of Travel and Other VersesPoems about the open road and the longing for Scotland, written during his travels and his last years in Samoa. Includes The Vagabond and Bright is the Ring of Words, later set to music by Vaughan Williams.
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In 1878 Stevenson walked 120 miles through the mountains of southern France with a stubborn donkey named Modestine. One of the first great books about hiking, funny and honest.
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Stevenson's first book: a canoe trip with a friend along the rivers and canals of Belgium and northern France in 1876. Light, observant travel writing from a young author finding his voice.
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His account of sailing through the Marquesas, the Tuamotus and the Gilbert Islands from 1888, with close portraits of island life, chiefs and customs. Written by the traveler who would settle in Samoa.
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Stevenson spent his honeymoon in 1880 in an abandoned silver mine on Mount Saint Helena, in California's Napa Valley. A charming memoir of wine country, miners and frontier life.
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