{"product_id":"edinburgh-picturesque-notes-9781646794515","title":"Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a travel book by one of the city's native sons. Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson's birthplace; he lived there on and off for the first 29 years of his life and continued to visit until 1887, when he and his wife left Europe. His book offers his personal impressions of each part of the city some of the history behind each, and its most famous buildings. This replica of the 1889 edition is enhanced by 27 original drawings of some of these structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStevenson, Robert Louis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383230337298,"sku":"9781646794515","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edinburgh-picturesque-notes-9781646794515","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}