Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1905 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
ESSAYS OF TRAVEL
by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1905
second impression
Contents
page
I. The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook—
The Second Cabin 3
Early Impressions 11
Steerage Scenes 21
Steerage Types 30
The Sick Man 42
The Stowaways 53
Personal Experience And Review 69
New York 81
II. Cockermouth And Keswick 93
Cockermouth 94
An Evangelist 97
Another 100
Last Of Smethurst 102
III. An Autumn Effect 106
IV. A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway 131
V. Forest Notes—
On The Plains 144
In The Season 149
Idle Hours 153
A Pleasure-Party 157
The Woods In Spring 164
Morality 169
VI. A Mountain Town In France 175
VII. Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum 189
VII. The Ideal House 199
IX. Davos In Winter 207
X. Health And Mountains 212
XI. Alpine Diversion 217
XII. The Stimulation Of The Alps 222
XIII. Roads 227
XIV. On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places 237