Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh, please, don’t ask me to choose. It’s like picking your favorite child. It just isn’t done. Besides, think of the psychiatrist bills to battle the neurosis of those that are not chosen. But Choose I must. It seems there is this “thing” going around–not lethal but very infectious–and I have been intentionally exposed by [...]
Destination: Tahiti Poetry: To an Island Princess by Robert Louis Stevenson May is Poetry Month, so I went in search of some travel poetry. I always read one of my childhood favorites, Robert Louis Stevenson’ In the Land of the Counterpane, when I was sick. His picture of a sick child playing on the bedcovers, [...]
Robert Louis Stevenson The works of Robert Louis Stevenson will soon be on line. Why should we travelers care? Because Stevenson penned not only the well known Treasure Island, from which all pirate novels spring, but, as Katherine Ryder says, he was a travel writer and champion of leisure. She suggests we read An Apology [...]
