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    Scottish Author Robert Louis Stevenson Featured on Samoa Postage Stamps

      

    Robert Louis Stevenson – 100th Ann Death on Samoa Stamp 1990

    Hi Mairiuna! I have to tell you I had much pleasure reading your article about Robert Louis Stevenson, one of our favourite Scottish writers. 

    Furthermore, it was great to see such a nice variety of beautiful book covers from the many different editions. [...]

    Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Catriona, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde…

    Carl Spitzweg The Bookworm c.1850

    ‘Books!’ said Tuppence.

     She produced the word rather with the effect of a bad-tempered explosion.

     ‘What did you say?’ said Tommy.  

    Tuppence looked across the room at him.

    ‘I said “books”,’ she said.

     ‘I see what you mean,’ said Thomas Beresford.

    [...]

    Monstrous Conspiracy that condemned the innocent Oscar Slater (1909) ..

    Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude! Hello again from Scotland!

    Hotel Marbella, Biarritz – September 2010 © Scotiana 2010

    Please let me begin today, Marie-Agnes et Jean-Claude, by recalling that joyful, sunny day in late summer when Margaret and I met you for the first time, at Biarritz on the Atlantic coast. From the deserted [...]

    Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec: Episode 5

    Kenneth White – The Blue Road -1990 – Mainstream Publishing

    Herman Melville came North to Canada on his honeymoon trip, when he was twenty-nine years old. In Montreal, he met Captain Coffin, about to leave on a whaling expedition up the norh Coast to Labrador. Maybe that was [...]