Avenues to Success for 03/24/09

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
 

    - Robert Lewis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish novelist, essayist and poet

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Life and Works Outline - Università di Bergamo, Italy

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THE FINAL VOYAGES OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - Jane Resture's Oceanic Page

... On the 26th June, 1888, the Robert Louis Stevenson's party went on board the Casco in San Francisco Harbour. The Casco was a 95' fore-and-aft topsail schooner of 70 ton. The Stevenson party comprised Stevenson, his wife, Fanny, his mother and the French maid, Valentine Roch. On the 28th June, 1888, the beautiful yacht was towed across the bay and through the Golden Gate where the sails were unfolded and the vessel began its southward voyage through the Pacific. It was a voyage only intended to be a health and pleasure excursion of a few months' duration but turned into a voluntary exile prolonged until the hour of his death.  ...

Did you know THE STORY OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE WAS BASED ON A DREAM? - Read more at InterpretaDream.com.

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