Name: The Silverado Squatters
SKU: 59989762
Price: 608.00 TWD
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Author: Mybook ; Stevenson, Robert Louis
ISBN: 9781977570758

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by

Mybook

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.6 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781977570758

Synopsis "The Silverado Squatters"

The Silverado Squatters provides some interesting views of California during the late 19th century. Stevenson uses the first telephone of his life. He meets a number of wine growers in Napa Valley, an enterprise he deemed "experimental", with growers sometimes even mislabelling the bottles as originating from Spain in order to sell their product to sceptical Americans. He visits the oldest wine grower in the valley, Jacob Schram, who had been experimenting for 18 years at his Schramsberg Winery, and had recently expanded the wine cellar in his backyard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(Edinburgh, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. He entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of sixteen to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lighthouse engineer, a career he would later abandon. His nautical studies allowed him to come into contact with seafaring people and customs, key ingredients in some of his most famous works. His renowned work, Treasure Island, was published under the pseudonym Captain George North in 1881. In 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the great classics of literature, was released. He died on the island of Samoa, at his home, Vailima.

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