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Tales Of Adventure

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN: 9780862416874
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not in stock

This is the fourth collection of adventure tales by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Canongate Classics series. The book includes: "The House of Eld", "The Song of Morrow", "Will O' the Mill", "The Treasure of Franchard", "The Sire de Maletroit's Door", "Treasure Island" and "The Black Arrow".

The real life adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson rival those of his famous fictional characters. Born in 1850 into a strictly religious, middle-class Edinburgh family, he later rebelled and refused to follow his father into the lighthouse construction business, opting instead for a literary career and marriage to Fanny, the love of his life and a crack-shot American divorcee. In 1886, the blockbuster novel Kidnapped was published – a dramatic adventure of abduction and life on the run in the wilds of Scotland. His travels took him to France, America and the South Pacific. Stevenson was an atheist and free spirit, and fought in a civil war for independence in Samoa, where he died in 1894, just 44 years old. The Samoan natives, who were devoted to Stevenson, cut a track through the jungle to create a resting place for him on top of the mountain above his beloved Vailima estate.

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