Robert Louis Stevenson - Bibliography - Island Literature - Non-fiction Works On The Pacific

Non-fiction Works On The Pacific

  • In the South Seas (1896). A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
  • A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892).

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