Robert Louis Stevenson

Western Samoa claims the largest proportion of full-blooded Polynesians in the world. At last count there were 162,000 of them, a collection of robust, often tattooed, sometimes obese, lava lava clad folks who live on the two main islands of Savai’i, and Upolu.

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Literary Destination: The Edinburgh Writer’s Museum

February 22, 2015
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Written by Stéphanie de Geus. Edinburgh at night steals your breath away. It’s love at first sight. In one glance, the historic buildings transport you to another time. During the day…

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Robert Louis Stevenson – Always in Edinburgh

April 23, 2006
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In the 19th Century, poverty and disease were rife throughout Edinburgh’s Old Town. Cobbled streets and narrow lanes harboured the dangerous and the delinquents; vagrants and beggars were aplenty and the threat of feces falling from the slums above, always a possibility.

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