The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson

To mark the hundredth anniversary of Stevenson’s death, Hunter Davies has gone travelling with him, searching out the man and his motivation, following him in the past and in the present. He has visited those places which will always be associated with him – from his birthplace in Edinburgh, to France, California, and then his final home in the Pacific. His book is half travel, half biography. And all of it, as one would expect from the pen of Hunter Davies, is entertaining, amusing and informative.