Across the Plaine : With other memories and essays
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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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. 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.
Main title:
Across the Plaine : With other memories and essays / by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Imprint:
London CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
Collation:
228 p.
ISBN:
9781542906340
Dewey class:
917.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3361289