Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist born in 1850 in Edinburgh. He traveled widely due to poor health and eventually settled in Samoa, where he wrote books set in the South Seas region. Some of his most famous works include Treasure Island, a tale of pirate adventure written for children, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror story about a doctor with a dual personality. Stevenson lived happily in Samoa until his death in 1894, and is buried there.

1. ROBERT Louis STEVENSON Made by Inés Lobato

2. ROBERT Louis STEVENSON Edinburgh (1.850) Samoa (1.894)

3. He travelled around the World He had a bad health and looked for a mild climate. Finally, he settled down in Samoa.

4. TREASURE ISLAND STEVENSON wrote Treasure Island for his stepson in 1881. He said “If this don’t fetch the kids, they have gone rotten since my day”

5. TREASURE ISLAND It is a tale of adventures, There’re pirates, A treasure map, A mutiny, and one-legged sea cook.

6. The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde This is a terror story about a doctor who becomes a monster by night, after having tasted a new drug

7. Samoa He lived in Samoa where He wrote “The South Seas” It became a text about history and against european colonialism

8. THE QUOTE Stevenson said: The little raft between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to girls and another to the boys. Do you agree?

9. UNDER THE Wide AND STARRY SKY DIG THE Grave AND LET Me LIE He lived in Samoa with his wife Fanny, his sons and his mother who also suffered from the lungs. There he died and there his tomb is.

10. TRIVIA Banknote from Samoa with Stevenson’s portrait Stamp from Samoa

11. AND THAT’S ALL Did you enjoy?