The Silverado Squatters
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9788726931150
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SAGA Egmont
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Langue
anglais
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The Silverado Squatters

SAGA Egmont

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Robert Louis Stevenson met the love of his life in France in 1876. She was
Fanny Osborne, an American, and four years later the pair married in
California. "Silverado Squatters" describes the honeymoon they spent in an
abandoned mining camp. Perched on the side of a mountain, it was a place that
time forgot, inhabited by wild cats and rattlesnakes. Stevenson luxuriates in
the wild beauty of the landscape. He also spins tales of the camp’s bygone
glory days. It's a great read for fans of American travelogues, like Jon
Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" or Mark Twain’s "Roughing It". Robert Louis
Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. Born in
Edinburgh, he suffered from severe health issues for most of his life. Despite
this, he still managed to produce some of the century’s most famous stories.
These include the classic adventure "Treasure Island" and the horror novella
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Stevenson’s last years were
spent on the Samoan island of Upolo, where he became an advocate for Samoan
rights. He died in his home of a brain haemorrhage and was buried on the
island’s Mount Vaea.
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