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The Amateur Emigrant Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Amateur Emigrant Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Donal Donnelly Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Fiction, Literary Publisher's Summary: The great author Robert Louis Stevenson received a fateful telegram from his friend Fanny Osbourne in 1879, urging him to leave Edinburgh and join her in San Francisco. The penniless young writer packed his bags and boarded a ship for a long, difficult voyage across the Atlantic, taking detailed notes of the appalling conditions and struggles of his fellow emigrants. When Stevenson arrived in the United States, he immediately boarded a railroad to California, observing the vast country during his transcontinental journey. A marvelously well-written travelogue, The Amateur Emigrant is one of the best accounts of the increasingly popular 19th-century a