Robert Louis Stevenson

Lloyd Osbourne

Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson

The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Essays of travel and in the art of writing. 1923

William Ernest Henley

The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol' is her account of her journey with her husband and grown son through the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands." "Fanny Stevenson's spirited personality led her into scenes and situations few Europeans, and fewer European women, had experienced. Her diary and its accompanying photographs offer unique glimpses of life in some of the last independent Pacific kingdoms and those just coming under colonial rule at the end of the nineteenth century. This book, with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly, is the story of an unconventional woman, her unusual marriage, and her adventurous journey through a rapidly changing Pacific world.

A Diary

The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands

Reproduction of the original: The Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” Among the South Sea Islands a Diary by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson

The Cruise of the “Janet Nichol” Among the South Sea Islands a Diary

The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands is a diary by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. It details her adventures with her husband, novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, as they travel to "Pacific paradise" at a time when the area was still largely untouched by western culture.

The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary

In April 1890 the steamer Janet Nicoll set off from Sydney for a three-month trading voyage through the central and western Pacific. Aboard were seven white men, a crew of forty islanders, and one woman: a short-haired, barefoot, cigarette-smoking American, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, wife of the famous novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cruise of the Janet Nichol is Fannys account of her journey with her husband and grown son through what are today the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands.

A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson

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Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson

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