Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer.

Travel Writing

• An Inland Voyage (1878), travels in a canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris.
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), travels in Cévennes (France), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities. It tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags.
• Silverado Squatters (1883), convalescence trip to a rough mining camp in Silverado, California with his family to improve his health which had suffered during a long trip from Europe.