The Silverado Squatters
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Shelf wear. Tight and clean.
This is an attractive antique copy of Stevenson's classic travelogue. This copy is from the estate of Rex Maughan (1936-2021), major Robert Louis Stevenson collector and archivist who, as Chairman of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, greatly contributed to the preservation of Stevenson's estate in Valima, Samoa.
Synopsis
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880. He and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift were unable to pay 10 dollars a week for a local hotel room, so they spent their unconventional honeymoon living in a bunkhouse in an abandoned mining camp named "Silverado". Squatting there for two months of a California summer, they installed makeshift cloth windows and hauled water from a close-by stream. The area they stayed in is now called The Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
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- Bookseller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2913
- Title
- The Silverado Squatters
- Author
- STEVENSON, Robert Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- 12mo
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