Across the Plains

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. This collection of essays is written in a delightful style by a keen observer of nature and man. Stevenson talks of a transcontinental railway trip, the artists' colony of Fontainebleau, nature, the foibles of man, and man's place in the universe.