library pack little known facts about R.L.S. with permission from http://www.stevenson-house.co.uk/rls.htm Scotsman invents sleeping bag! R.L.S. has a good claim to be the inventor of the Sleeping Bag, taking a large fleece‐lined sack with him to sleep in on the journey through France described in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.
Who was Long John Silver? The one‐legged pirate cook, the dark hero of R.L.S.ʹs most famous novel Treasure Island, is said to be based on the authorʹs friend and collaborator William Ernest Henley, whom he met when Henley was in Edinburgh for surgery to save his one remaining leg from tuberculosis.
How did R.L.S. die? Although probably afflicted throughout his life by tuberculosis, R.L.S. actually died in 1894 at Vailima, his home on the south pacific island of Upolu, Samoa. At the time, he was helping his wife make mayonnaise for supper! He died of a cerebral haemorrhage (stroke).
Malaria in California ! R.L.S. nearly died of it in San Francisco shortly before his wedding in 1880.
The real Dr Jekyll? In his tale of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, one of the first ʹpsychologicalʹ thrillers, R.L.S. portrays how two contradictory personalities ‐ one conventional and ʹgoodʹ, the other an example of increasingly uncontrolledʹ evilʹ ‐ can coexist in one body. It is said that this was an idea modelled on the late 18th century case of Deacon Brodie, a respectable Edinburgh businessman by day who was a gambler, adulterer, armed robber and murderer by night. Nobody knew until he bungled a robbery, was eventually caught and hanged on a gallows of his own invention!
( Displays some ideas for Library related events ( Stop (kidnap) classes, read Kidnapped ( Mock Trial of James Stuart Background information can be found at http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1267&id=2013922005 http://www.sundayherald.com/51171 http://www.scran.co.uk has useful background material including a copy of a document for the expenses for the re‐hanging of James Stewart. James Stewartʹs body was left in chains on the gibbet at Ballachulish to discourage others. Due to a gale the corpse blew down! Makes fascinating reading. ( Kidnapped Day Dress down day in school. A modern day pirate theme? ( Puzzles Wordsearch and sudoku puzzles available from the City of Literature website. Quizzes ʺFling the teacherʺ quiz from the City of Literature website. www.cit ( ( Poetry Poetry based on Kidnapped, Scottish poetry.
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library pack Useful websites Kidnapped One Book-One Edinburgh Campaign
Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust website http://www.cityofliterature.com
Robert. Louis Stevenson National Library of Scotland website http://www.nls.uk/rlstevenson/
Robert Louis Stevenson website http://dinamico.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm
In 1994, the University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/rls.html
SLAINTE Scottish authors website http://www,slainte.org.uk/scotauth/stevedsw.htm
Wikipedia – R.L.S. page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson Kidnapped.
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/kidnapped
Wikipedia – Kidnapped page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapped_%28novel%29 Recommended. Jacobite websites National Trust for Scotland website http://www.ntseducation.org.uk/pupils/jacobites.html
Wikipedia – Jacobite page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism
BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/union/features_union_jacobites.shtml
The Jacobite Heritage website http://www.jacobite.ca/ www.cit Recommended pirate websites y ofliterature.com http://www.piratesinfo.com/
http://www.rochedalss.ql.edu.au/pirates/
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