Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Robert Louis Stevenson State Park is a California state park, located in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties. The park offers a hike to the summit of Mount Saint Helena from which much of the Bay Area can be seen. On clear days it is possible to see the peak of Mount Shasta, distant. The park is named after Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped". In 1880, Stevenson and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne spent their honeymoon living in a cabin at a played-out mine on the mountain along with Fanny's
Toilers of the Sea credited with introducing the Guernésiais word for octopus ("pieuvre") into the French language (standard French for octopus is "poulpe"). The following dedication appears at the front of the book: The novel was first published in Brussels in 1866 (Hugo was in exile from France). An English translation quickly appeared in New York later that year, under the title "The Toilers of the Sea". A UK edition followed in 1887, with Ward Lock publishing Sir G Campbell's translation under the title "Workers of the Sea" followed by an 1896 Routledge edition under the title "Toilers of the Sea". Hugo had originally