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Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage CC0 1. Read by Annise. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was convinced by friends to purchase a ticket one grade above the lowest price, for which he was later thankful after seeing the conditions in steerage, but he still lived among the 'lower' classes.

I found that I could sleep after the coffee and lay awake after the tea, which is proof conclusive of some chemical disparity; and even by the palate I could distinguish a smack of snuff in the former from a flavour of boiling and dishcloths in the second. As a matter of fact, I have seen passengers, after many sips, still doubting which had been supplied them.

The dinner of soup, roast fresh beef, boiled salt junk, and potatoes, was, I believe, exactly common to the steerage and the second cabin; only I have heard it rumoured that our potatoes were of a superior brand; and twice a week, on pudding-days, instead of duff, we had a saddle-bag filled with currants under the name of a plum-pudding. At tea we were served with some broken meat from the saloon; sometimes in the comparatively elegant form of spare patties or rissoles; but as a general thing, mere chicken-bones and flakes of fish, neither hot nor cold.

If these were not the scrapings of plates their looks belied them sorely; yet we were all too hungry to be proud, and fell to these leavings greedily. These, the bread, which was excellent, and the soup and porridge, which were both good, formed my whole diet throughout the voyage, so that except for the broken meat and the convenience of a table I might as well have been in the steerage outright.

Had they given me porridge again in the evening, I should have been perfectly contented with the fare. As it was, with a few biscuits and some whisky and water before turning in, I kept my body going and my spirits up to the mark. The last particular in which the second cabin passenger remarkably stands ahead of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment.

For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between decks, I came on a brass plate, and learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same quarter of the deck. Who could tell whether I housed on the port or starboard side of steerage No. And it was only there that my superiority became practical; everywhere else I was incognito, moving among my inferiors with simplicity, not so much as a swagger to indicate that I was a gentleman after all, and had broken meat to tea.

Still, I was like one with a patent of nobility in a drawer at home; and when I felt out of spirits I could go down and refresh myself with a look of that brass plate. For all these advantages I paid but two guineas.

Six guineas is the steerage fare; eight that by the second cabin; and when you remember that the steerage passenger must supply bedding and dishes, and, in five cases out of ten, either brings some dainties with him, or privately pays the steward for extra rations, the difference in price becomes almost nominal. Two of my fellow-passengers in the second cabin had already made the passage by the cheaper fare, and declared it was an experiment not to be repeated.

As I go on to tell about my steerage friends, the reader will perceive that they were not alone in their opinion. Out of ten with whom I was more or less intimate, I am sure not fewer than five vowed, if they returned, to travel second cabin; and all who had left their wives behind them assured me they would go without the comfort of their presence until they could afford to bring them by saloon.

Our party in the second cabin was not perhaps the most interesting on board. Perhaps even in the saloon there was as much good-will and character. Yet it had some elements of curiosity. There was a mixed group of Swedes, Danes, and Norsemen, one of whom, generally known by the name of "Johnny," in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and became on the strength of that an universal favourite—it takes so little in this world of shipboard to create a popularity.

There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation. He had a sister on board, whom he faithfully neglected throughout the voyage, though she was not only sick, but much his senior, and had nursed and cared for him in childhood.

In appearance he was like an imbecile Henry the Third of France. The Scotsman, though perhaps as big an ass, was not so dead of heart; and I have only bracketed them together because they were fast friends, and disgraced themselves equally by their conduct at the table. Next, to turn to topics more agreeable, we had a newly married couple, devoted to each other, with a pleasant story of how they had first seen each other years ago at a preparatory school, and that very afternoon he had carried her books home for her.

I do not know if this story will be plain to Southern readers; but to me it recalls many a school idyll, with wrathful swains of eight and nine confronting each other stride-legs, flushed with jealousy; for to carry home a young lady's books was both a delicate attention and a privilege. We had to take her own word that she was married; for it was sorely contradicted by the testimony of her appearance.

Nature seemed to have sanctified her for the single state; even the colour of her hair was incompatible with matrimony, and her husband, I thought, should be a man of saintly spirit and phantasmal bodily presence. She was ill, poor thing; her soul turned from the viands; the dirty tablecloth shocked her like an impropriety; and the whole strength of her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had heard reports, her husband and she, of some unwarrantable disparity of hours between these two cities; and with a spirit commendably scientific, had seized on this occasion to put them to the proof.

It was a good thing for the old lady; for she passed much leisure time in studying the watch. Once, when prostrated by sickness, she let it run down. It was inscribed on her harmless mind in letters of adamant that the hands of a watch must never be turned backwards; and so it behoved her to lie in wait for the exact moment ere she started it again.

When she imagined this was about due, she sought out one of the young second-cabin Scotsmen, who was embarked on the same experiment as herself and had hitherto been less neglectful. Last but not least, I come to my excellent friend Mr. It would be difficult to say whether I was his right-hand man, or he mine, during the voyage. Thus at table I carved, while he only scooped gravy; but at our concerts, of which more anon, he was the president who called up performers to sing, and I but his messenger who ran his errands and pleaded privately with the over-modest.

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Stevenson embarked on a walk through the Cevennes with a donkey in which was later to be published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' and in August of the same year he resolved to follow Fanny to America. Mike Harris' two plays portray these two enormously significant journeys and attempt to capture Stevenson's feelings for Fanny and how they affected him on his travels.

See all episodes from Drama. BBC Radio 4 Drama. Home Episodes Clips Galleries Podcast. Main content. Sorry, this episode is not currently available. Show more. By Mike Harris. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, journals and personal letters. His journey was also published - most particularly in 'The Amateur Emigrant'. Show less. Last on. Fri 15 Aug BBC Radio 4 Extra.

More episodes Previous. Next You are at the last episode. Thu 27 Oct Thu 23 Aug Thu 14 Aug All times, races, and languages have brought their contribution. Aug 23, Kimberly rated it liked it. It is written more like someone sitting and talking of their journey, which I can appreciate.

I loved hearing bits of history and culture from his trip. One little tiny tid bit I loved from this book was when he has in the western United States he explained the bit system of currency. This lead to a fun discussion with the kids about currency and the old time traditions of my family.

They realized Grandpa still used the term 2 bits and now they understand it better. Mar 11, Jan Norton rated it liked it. This has been on my shelf for a number of years and I kept passing over it. I decided that is was time to read it. It is a travel documentary by the man who wrote Kidnapped and The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Stevenson writes about sailing on an English steamship in accommodations a step up from steerage class.

After he lands in New York he travels to California by rail car, In a lot of ways, the reader is reading his diary. He writes of the common people he meets, and in doing so h This has been on my shelf for a number of years and I kept passing over it. He writes of the common people he meets, and in doing so he engages in a good deal of social criticism.

It reminded me a lot of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in the way that Stevenson captures the people he encounters with great detail. The passages about class and how people treat each other stand true today as well. Great read! Mar 15, Sharon rated it really liked it.

Stevenson as a travel writer is pursuing his future wife "Fanny" that he met in France. Some witty observations of passengers in steerage and interesting account of his travels from NY to California to win Fanny again. Jun 30, Charles Nielsen rated it really liked it. Witty and fun. At times a bit boring, but regularly punctuated by insight and amusing anecdotes.

Attitudes towards race and class remarkable for its time. Perhaps the only reference to Toano, NV now a ghost town in modern literature. Jun 02, Janelle rated it liked it Shelves: historical , non-fiction , biographies , audiobooks-for-sleep-read , classics , 3-stars.

I listened to the Librivox audiobook which only includes the leg from Scotland to New York. I enjoyed this account of Stevenson's travels and hope I can find the books with the remaining legs of his journey. Oct 01, Kathie rated it it was ok.

Stevenson's account of his emigration to the United States. He had plenty to say about the people he encountered on the ship and in the last chapter, the people in New York. All in all, rather boring. The book is descriptive of fellow travelers and of the landscape without being too wordy. Shocked how he thought Wyoming was the worst part of the overland journey Nothing but grey, black and sagebrush.

Living here I disagree. Jul 21, Sneh Pradhan rated it liked it. Writing , you can slip beautifully into and cuddle with!!!! Aug 30, Noelle rated it it was ok Shelves: gave-up-on. Only read about half. Memoir by Stevenson about traveling from Scotland to the United States. Oct 31, Denise rated it it was ok. The writing is good, but this story of RLS's emigration to America didn't capture my interest as I thought it would.

I confess, the most enjoyable parts were those where he talked about his new country and its inhabitants from his English point of view. Because, as an American, it's all about me, right? Jun 20, Alison rated it liked it. He wasn't famous yet, and he was very poor, so he wrote from the perspective and experiences of most poor immigrants, which makes his account valuable.

He wrote an empassioned defense of Native Americans and couldn't abide unkindness. Nov 05, Ellen Fetu rated it really liked it. For what it was, a travel journal, excellent read. Wished I would have had an English colleague with me, as there were quite a few very English and old expressions and terms which I did not recognize. If one ever wondered what travel by ocean steamer and then cross-country train in was like, reader is given a detailed account.

That was very interesting. Jan 02, Kimbolimbo rated it did not like it Shelves: read-in I listened to this book on Librivox. I bet it would be a much more interesting book to actually read. Unfortunately I have no desire to try and read this book again. This is a travel memoir written by RLS describing his voyage from Scotland to San Francisco, most of it concerning the sea voyage across the Atlantic. I found it interesting and amusing in a kind of Mark Twain style.

Feb 26, Avis Black rated it liked it Shelves: classics , travel , best-nonfictions-tos , underappreciated-books. Oct 22, Colleen rated it did not like it Shelves: fiction , books-i-didn-t-finish , classics. I attempted to read this book but it was way to boring. Feb 10, Jayme VA rated it it was ok Shelves: A story about Stevenson's trip across the Atlantic, including his views on the people on board the ship and the people of New York.

Kind of a boring account, but a very quick read. May 02, David rated it liked it Shelves: nonfiction , ebook , travel , memoirs-bio , librivox. Kind of interesting little book. I like RLS and he is such a good writer, that I enjoyed this more than if another writer had chronicled his tale of emigration. Apr 10, Catherine rated it really liked it. Fascinating description of RLS's experience emigrating from Scotland by ship and crossing the continent by train.

Readers also enjoyed. About Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature.

It is onl Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. Books by Robert Louis Stevenson. Related Articles. Margaret Atwood has written more than 50 books during her literary career, including the modern classics The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, Read more Trivia About The Amateur Emigrant.

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