Robert Louis Stevenson - The Travelling Mind is a concise account of Stevenson’s life – his family background, childhood and adolescence in a Calvinist, hard-working household in Scotland, his travels in three continents, and his final years in the South Seas. It examines his relationships with his parents and his nurse, with English and American friends, particularly the family into which he married, and Samoan islanders among whom he died at the age of 44.

Stevenson’s childhood experiences and Scottish identity fed his fertile imagination wherever he found himself. His legacy includes travel writing, essays and poetry, and novels such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae, Strange Case of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde, St Ives and Weir of Hermiston, still read and enjoyed more than a hundred years after his death. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Travelling Mind is an insightful introduction to the life and work of one of the world’s best-loved writers.