The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson trapping As the tree grows

As the tree grows

Whelan brings history to life recounting an amusing anecdote of Queen Victoria and her bathing machine (currently on display at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight)

At once magical

Continues the true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches

[She] brings her observer's eye and poet's voice to the universal experience of sorrow and loss

The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson trapping As the tree growsThe scene of this little book is on a high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a center of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of one section of the Californian Coast Range, none of its near neighbors rising to one half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It