Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name, as well as bequeathing it one of his best-known observations, to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. He is best-known for his literary journeys into the past, in such books as Kidnapped and Treasure Island; but he also travelled in real life, on a donkey in the Cevennes, and finally across the Pacific to Samoa, where he died on 3 December 1894. Hunter Davies retraces Stevenson's steps in this part travelogue, part biography, visiting those places which will always be associated with him; from his birthplace in Edinburgh, to France, California, and then his final home in the Pacific, on the island of Samoa.