Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde among many other works, was born in Scotland in 1850 and died in Samoa in 1894. In those forty-four years, he packed in a lot of travel alongside all that writing. Much of the travel was for health reasons: at the urging of doctors he was constantly looking for more temperate climates to ease his frequent attacks and hemorrhages. Confined to his nursery as chronically ill […]