Alex Capus follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last
years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and
reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in
Stevenson's life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the
climate was poison for his already diseased lungs. When he arrived
there in 1889, neither Stevenson nor his family particularly liked
the Pacific island and wanted to stay for only a few days. Yet soon
afterwards he changed his mind and, intriguingly, spent what little
remained of his savings on a plot of land and began living there on
a meagre income. Before long Stevenson set about building an
opulent villa and lived out the rest of his days in splendour. What
had happened? Capus asserts that Stevenson not only wrote the
world-famous novel "Treasure Island" here but searched for the
treasure himself and furthermore found it towards the end of his
life, on a little island he could see from the peak of the mountain
in Samoa where he settled.
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