A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

"What a couple they were! Robert and Fanny Stevenson braved social convention and poverty to forge a bohemian marriage that took them from their meeting at an artists’ colony in France to their honeymoon in an abandoned silver mine in California to settled happiness in Samoa. Camille Peri says in the introduction to her biography of the Stevensons that she hopes their story will be “an inspiration for anyone seeking a freer, more unconventional life.” Just for starters, it has inspired me to reread Treasure Island."