Robert Louis Stevenson - The South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises in the Islands ... Pt 1, The Marq...
Robert Louis Stevenson - The South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises in the Islands ... Pt 1, The Marq...
Robert Louis Stevenson - The South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises in the Islands ... Pt 1, The Marquesas, ca. 1889
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Date
ca. 1889
Call Numbers
C 233
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Contents
1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
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Level of description
Fonds
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Issue Copy
Microfilm : C 233)
Partly Digitised : page 1
Finding aids
Transcript of first page available online - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/a128473.html
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Manuscript account of a voyage made by Stevenson among the Marquesas Islands in the yacht Casco in 1888. It was published in 1896, with an additional chapter, as the first part of 'In the South Seas...'
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Full title
Robert Louis Stevenson - The South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises in the Islands ... Pt 1, The Marquesas, ca. 1889
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Author / Creator
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Digital order no:a128473
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Angus & Robertson in 1912.
This item has been preserved and partly digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
Administrative / Biographical history
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. After graduating in law in 1874 he turned to writing and travel. His journeys in France and America resulted in several travel books but it was the novels that he began to produce in the 1880s that brought him fame, among them 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped'.
He suffered from fevers and hae...
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C 233
Record Identifier
nM7lWoVY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lWoVY
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421706
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