Robert Louis Stevenson began his career as a witty and innovative essayist. This collection includes a selection of fifteen of Stevenson's most poignant, amusing and personal essays on subjects such as deep-sea diving off the coast of Scotland, child's play, death, the medieval poet-thief Francois Villon, surreal San Francisco, insomnia, and Stevenson's quirky enjoyment of ""unpleasant places"".
Robert Louis Stevenson began his career as a witty and innovative essayist. This collection includes a selection of fifteen of Stevenson's most poigna...
