Essays of Travel

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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]

I.
THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT