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in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and their passengers the cleanest.
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1: Across The Plains (1.Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant Between New York and San Francisco; 2. The Emigrant Train; 3. The Plains of Nebraska; 4. The Desert of Wyoming; 5.Fellow-Passengers; 6.Despised Races 7. To the Golden Gates). (A travel description of Stevenson's railway journey across
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9: Beggars. (A description of two beggars Stevenson had met, which evolves into a discourse on beggary in general, and charity, and concludes with recommending taxes as the best means of
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7: The Lantern-bearers. (Stevenson's memories of running about at night with his friends, each with a lantern hidden under his coat, which evolves into a discussion of the causes of joy).
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8: A Chapter on Dreams. (Discusses dreams, and an author known to Stevenson whose work was based on his dreams. This author turns out to be Stevenson himself, and mentions how
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6: Random Memories. II - The education of an engineer. (Stevenson describes the time he went diving at Anstruther in Scotland, in a rubber suit with a great brass helmet).
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The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at
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5: Random Memories. I - The coast of Fife. (A discourse on events and people conjured up by Stevenon's memories of the coastal areas of Fife that he visited as a child).
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as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to
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10: Letter to a Young Gentleman who proposes to embrace a career in art.
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Index

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Amateur Emigrant
The Silverado Squatters
New York
San Francisco
Monterey
Fontainebleau
An Inland Voyage
Olalla
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
redistribution of wealth
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
Project Gutenberg
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Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes
The Silverado Squatters
Memories and Portraits
Across the Plains
Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
The Amateur Emigrant
Treasure Island
Prince Otto
Kidnapped
The Black Arrow
The Master of Ballantrae

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