![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, many of his best-known writings use voyages and travels as their framework - Treasure Island and Kidnapped, for example - and Stevenson would travel for the rest of his life. This was the first of his many travels abroad, usually to France. When he was twenty-three, Stevenson developed a severe respiratory illness and was sent to the French Riviera to recuperate. He was a young rebel he thought that his parents' religion was an abomination, and he soon became known as a bohemian, ranting about bourgeois hypocrisy. His family expected him to become a lighthouse engineer, a family profession, but Stevenson agreed, as a compromise, to study law instead. When at last Stevenson was able to attend school, he did extremely well and entered the university at sixteen. He was a sickly youth, and an only son, for whom his parents had high hopes. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. ![]()
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