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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 · 19th century

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. From 1888 he travelled in the Pacific and wrote about the Gilbertese king Tem Binoka of Abemama. He settled at Vailima in Samoa, where he criticised German, British and American interference in A Footnote to History, and he died there.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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