The Silverado Squatters
Title | The Silverado Squatters PDF eBook |
Author | Stevenson R.L. |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 115 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5517002021 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are “Treasure Island” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. “The Silverado Squatters” is Robert’s sweet traveling memoir about a two-month honeymoon trip with his wife, Fanny, and her son Lloyd. It extensively describes their travel to Napa Valley, California in 1880.
Silverado Squatter
Title | Silverado Squatter PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2006-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1425012442 |
Stevenson has penned his eccentric honeymoon trip to a deserted mining camp in Napa Valley with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd. The book substantiates author's harmonized style mingling with distinct and original vision and conscientious handling of English language. Weird characters with primitive wilderness and jagged country filled with horrendous animals enrapture reader's mind.
The Silverado Squatters
Title | The Silverado Squatters PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and An Inland Voyage
Title | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and An Inland Voyage PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | Konemann |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Authors, Scottish |
ISBN | 9783895084607 |
The Silverado Squatters
Title | The Silverado Squatters PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | California |
ISBN | 9780910457323 |
Just as Peter Mayle captured the mood an characters of Provence, Robert Louis Stevenson evokes California's wine country and some of the unique characters he found there while honeymooning with Bay Area native Frances Osbourne and her stepson in the summer of 1880. The new family spent nine weeks in Calistoga and the Napa Valley, residing in a bunkhouse of an abandoned silver mine, doing what visitors to the area do today - living graciously (given the at times daunting constraints of their rustic adopted home), admiring the region's serene beauty, and sipping samples of the local elixirs. The author's first work published on this side of the Atlantic (with the exception of a few poems in The Atlantic Monthly), The Silverado Squatters laid the groundwork for the immense popularity Stevenson came to enjoy here. This classic, beautifully written account of a sojourn in the late-nineteenth century wine country by one of Northern California's literary forefathers provides a vivid, delightful complement to an actual visit to the region today.
The Amateur Emigrant
Title | The Amateur Emigrant PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | Cosimo Classics |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.
Bottled Poetry
Title | Bottled Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | James T. Lapsley |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0520309995 |
California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James T. Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal of Prohibition. Focusing on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967, Lapsley concludes with a chapter on the wine boom of the 1970s, placing it in a social context and explaining the role of Napa vineyards in the beverage's growing popularity. Names familiar to wine drinkers appear throughout these pages—Beaulieu, Beringer, Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, Inglenook, Louis Martini—and the colorful stories behind the names give this book a personal dimension. As strong-willed, competitive winemakers found ways to work cooperatively, both in sharing knowledge and technology and in promoting their region, the result was an unprecedented improvement in wine quality that brought with it a new reputation for the Napa Valley. In The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to wine as "bottled poetry," and although Stevenson's reference was to the elite vineyards of France, his words are appropriate for Napa wines today. Their success, as Lapsley makes clear, is due to much more than the beneficence of sun and soil. Craft, vision, and determination have played a part too, and for that, wine drinkers the world over are grateful. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.