The Amateur Emigrant From The Clyde To Sandy Hook

For In Emigration The Young Men Enter Direct By The Shipload On Their Heritage Of Work; Empty Continents Swarm, As At The Bosuns Whistle, With Industrious Hands, And Whole Hew Empires Are Domesticated To The Service Of Man. -robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant This Jacketed Hardcover Edition Of The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook (1895), By Robert Louis Stevenson Is The First Book (followed By Across The Plains And The Silverado Squatters) In A Trilogy The Author Wrote About His Journey From Scotland To California In 1879-1880. In This Volume, He Describes The First Leg Of His Trip, Made By Ship From Europe To York City.