Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
โ Scribed by Alberto Manguel
- Book ID
- 110685732
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847677235
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr Baker, turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home. As Stevenson's meetings with the tantalizingly nebulous missionary become increasingly strange, a series of crimes against the native population sours the atmosphere. With its playful nod to Stevenson's life and work Manguel has woven an intoxicating tale in which fantasy infiltrates reality.
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