Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific

Robert Louis Stevenson''s departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father''s death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of latent intellectual and political interests. Roslyn Jolly examines the crucial period from 1887 to ...