Omnibus (1967)

Stevenson's Travels (2) (1994x19)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 06, 1994

The conclusion to the two-part documentary celebrating the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson covers the last 14 years - the writing of his first novel Treasure Island; the story behind Jekyll and Hyde; a winter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State which inspired The Master of Ballantrae; and his voyage in the Pacific where he was to die, on 3 December 1894, at the age of 44. The circumstances of his death are vividly recalled by an eyewitness, his stepdaughter Belle Strong, on a tape recording discovered in the course of making the programme. This much travelled man spent his final years a clan chieftain in Samoa, a Scottish exile witnessing native wars and who died before completing what remains, even unfinished, perhaps his greatest book, Weir of Hermiston.