Robert
Louis
Stevenson
gave us
Treasure Island,
Kidnapped,
A Child's Garden of Verses and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

 

He died just 44 years old in 1894.

A Scotsman living in the South Seas because of his tuberculosis,
Stevenson was buried on the summit of Mount Vaea in Western Samoa.

He wrote his own epitaph 14 years before his death.

 

 

 

 

photos courtesy of the
National Library of Scotland