“I really like adventures, books featuring travel, 19th-century literature and Stevenson, so I was hoping for more. While reading I found its principal virtue to be its length and the promise that with minimal investment I'd be able to move on. Never what you want in a book.

I could be more forgiving, after having read that it was one of his first works and that it didn't have the excellent canon of travel books for inspiration that we have today, but I'll choose not to. Those...”

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