num_pages: 138
description: 1984 Hogarth Press trade paperback, British import. Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island). The great author Robert Louis Stevenson received a fateful telegram from his friend Fanny Osbourne in 1879, urging him to leave Edinburgh and join her in San Francisco. The penniless young writer packed his bags and boarded a ship for a long, difficult voyage across the Atlantic, taking detailed notes of the appalling conditions and struggles of his fellow emigrants. When Stevenson arrived in the United States, he immediately boarded a railroad to California, observing the vast country during his transcontinental journey. A marvelously well-written travelogue, The Amateur Emigrant is one of the best accounts of the increasingly popular 19th-century adventure of Europeans sailing to the New World and discovering America. - Amazon
language: English
title: The Amateur Emigrant
titlecomplete: The Amateur Emigrant
genres: Biography, Adventure, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Classics, Travel, 19th Century, History
ratings_count: 257
places: The United States of America
publisher: Hogarth Press