Albatross

A restless wanderer who wrote from the edges of the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson spent much of his life in perpetual motion — from the Scottish Highlands to France, the American frontier, and finally the remote Pacific islands of Samoa, where he died. He was a deeply solitary creative spirit who needed distance and independence to produce his work, never settling comfortably into the literary establishment of his day. His writing — from 'Treasure Island' to 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' — reflects a romantic, self-reliant soul charting his own course far from the beaten path.