Written for the Famous Scots Series, this life follows Stevenson from his lighthouse-engineering family and sickly Edinburgh childhood through college, his choice of letters over engineering, the long wanderings in search of health, marriage, and the final years in Samoa. Margaret Moyes Black adds her own memories of him as she first knew him, alongside chapters on his essays, poems and stories.
A warm, compact biography written soon after his death, by someone who remembered the man. Download the free EPUB.