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The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift to Napa Valley, California, in 1880.


Robert Louis Stevenson photo
Robert Louis Stevenson photo

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”

The Silverado Squatters.
Context: There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

Robert Louis Stevenson photo
Robert Louis Stevenson photo

“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”

The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

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