Across the Plains: With Other Memories and EssaysCosimo, Incorporated, 1892 - 286 psl. "America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor. |
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... seemed at the moment a natural incident of human life . Cold , wet , clamour , dead opposition to progress , such as one encounters in an evil dream , had utterly daunted the spirits . We had accepted this purgatory as a child accepts ...
... had lost her parents , screamed steadily and with increasing shrillness , as though verging towards a fit ; an official kept her by him , but no one else seemed so much as to remark her distress ; and I am ashamed to ACROSS THE PLAINS . 15.
... seemed , we had to camp upon the draughty , gaslit platform . I sat on my valise , too crushed to observe my neighbours ; but as they were all cold , and wet , and weary , and driven stupidly crazy by the mismanagement to which we had ...
... seemed to be part and parcel of the beauty of the land . As when Adam with divine fitness named the creatures , so this word Susquehanna was at once accepted by the fancy . That was the name , as no other could be , for that shining ...
... seemed to travel with the blood . Day came in with a shudder . White mists lay thinly over the surface of the plain , as we see them more often on a lake ; and though the sun had soon dispersed and drunk them up , leaving an atmosphere ...