Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage , details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first ...book. He had decided to become free from his parent's financial support so that he might freely pursue the woman he loved; to support himself he wrote travelogues, most notably An Inland Voyage , Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and The Silverado Squatters.
The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger outlines in clear, comprehensive terms the details of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's foreign policy toward Africa and how that ...policy related to other aspects of his global viewpoint. For the first time, editors Hanes Walton, Jr., Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Bernard Rosser bring together a diverse collection of public documents, speeches, and congressional presentations for critical analysis and in-depth discussion. This book presents an intellectual evaluation of governmental sources to determine the kinds of foreign policy proposals and programs that Kissinger developed for the various crises and problems which were under way in Africa. The essays demonstrate how Kissinger used his brand of shuttle diplomacy to set up delicate negotiations to ease the new international tensions and the power-rivalry. The African Foreign Policy of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger offers important insight that will stimulate debate and be a lively read for those interested in international politics and political science.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart.
L’émigrant amateur Stevenson, Robert Louis
Socio-anthropologie,
11/1999, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
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Premières impressionsNous quittâmes la Clyde dans la nuit du jeudi. De bonne heure dans l’après-midi du vendredi, ayant embarqué à Lough Foyle, en Irlande, notre dernière fournée d’émigrants, nous ...dîmes adieu à l’Europe. La troupe, maintenant au complet, commença à se grouper sur le pont suivant d’inconnaissables attirances magnétiques. On voyait là quantité d’Ecossais et d’Irlandais, quelques Anglais, quelques Américains, une bonne poignée de Scandinaves, un ou deux Allemands et un Russe. Di...
"With his oeuvre deeply rooted in a tradition that goes back to Gauguin, Bonnard, and Munch, Peter Doig gives us a beautiful, contemplative, and mysterious glimpse into the secrets of the painter's ...craft, which finds its true home in a museum of fine art," declares Nathalie Bondil, the MMFA's director and chief curator. Doig's work follows in the great tradition of artists that includes Bonnard, Matisse, Gauguin, and Munch, but also of James Wilson Morrice and Tom Thomson, Canadian painters he admires, and of Wifredo Lam and Armando Reverón, the celebrated Cuban and Venezuelan artists. If there exists a legitimate successor to these great masters, Doig is widely held to be the one. The exhibition unfolds like a voyage, a descent into the secrets of Doig's creative process and into the imagination that inhabits his canvases and makes them so evocative. From one gallery to the next, visitors discover Doig's world of painting and how he explores its expressive potential, narrative power, and its history with consummate virtuosity. Scenes from everyday life, tropical landscapes, visions of ghostly beings, solitary figures, boats, forests, walls - for Doig, all subjects are opportunities to commit himself fully to the act of painting. At times, he can take years to complete a canvas, and he often returns to the same subject. The exhibition features a number of "pairs" of works, paintings that share a similar motif but were not conceived of in series. These pairings, brought together in many instances for the first time, testify to the artist's sense of obsession and inventiveness.
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