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Across the Plains
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To one hurrying through by steam there was a certain exhilaration in this spacious vacancy, this greatness of the air, this discovery of the whole arch of heaven, this straight, unbroken, prison-line of the horizon. Yet one could not but reflect upon the weariness of those who passed by there in old days, at the foot's pace of oxen, p. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Interesting to read the fountainhead of fable and adventure from my childhood here in a different mode as travel writer. The writing is out-of-date, a bit cumbersome. There's not a lot of spark in his observations, although he does make a good go of it describing the little seaside village where he
Across the Plains is the middle book of a trilogy dealing with some of Stevenson's travels. I do not recommend starting with this book any more than I would recommend starting with the middle book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The first book of the trilogy is The Amateur Emigrant, which chronicl
RLS is by far my favourite writer. This little collection of non- fiction includes Across The Plains, an account of his journey across America, mainly by rail. He is a fascinated observer of what we might now term, 'The Wild West' and gives us an unromanticised version of the 'melting pot' of the US
Definitely not Stevenson's greatest work. However, it was still interesting to read his thoughts on a trans-continental trip.
A collection of short stories.
Random essays without any common theme
The title essay and one or two others were decent, the rest are wasted time I'll never get back. Can't understand how anyone would have read and enjoyed them.
This book was interesting in the respect of describing an overland trip across the plains from New York to San Francisco. The journey seems to take weeks on hot, crowded trains with a motley assortment of passengers and no facilities to keep clean. A special car held the Chinese travellers and he no
This is a travelogue of a fair good quality, in my view. It’s the New York-San Francisco route, as the title implies, via the plains landscape.
Despite all the troubles and harshness inherent (for some time Stevenson is a 3rd class train-passenger), it conveys very well this new-continent impres