Do you know the answer to this without googling?

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Because I was absolutely convinced the answer was completely different

What is Robert Louis Stevenson famous for?

@Ebearhug I would have appreciated your short lecture with dates I am interested in most things but retain actual information about very few things. I had a shocking lockdown quiz average.

I did love visiting Ironbridge though.

Yes, of course.

Yep. The v and ph, relationships, lighthouses, trains, books. I’m a bookworm and civil engineer! I wanted to call DS Isambard, but DH was having none of it.

Yes. Not related. Robert Stevenson - author of Treasure Island. George Stephenson - inventor of The Rocket (steam train).

He wrote Jekyll and Hyde

My first thought was Jekyll and Hyde. But I actually started to doubt myself when I read the OP🤣🤣

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will

This be the verse you grave for me
Here he lies where he longs to be
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill

Wonderful stuff - I also adore the Land of Counterpane.

I grew up in York so George Stephenson and George Hudson always got muddled - the Rocket was in the York Railway Museum and George Hudson was the railway 'King' from York.

Gulliver's Travels and Treasure Island are 'twin' books to me. Like Chronicles of Narnia and LOTR.

@GrendelsGrandma

I love RLS. As a teen I really enjoyed Travels with a Donkey, which is just a story of him buying a donkey and attempting to get across a mountain pass with it.

And the donkey was called Modestine and was extremely uncooperative.

He had a goad to encourage her to move.

As a Scot i know who he was.

He also wrote the poem that the Outlander theme is based on.

Is this a trick question?

Yes.

It’s such an easy question that for a bit, I thought perhaps there was some trick and it was a slightly different spelling that we might only notice if we looked very carefully.

People have written songs about this .....

I have a book about the Lighthouse Stevenson that I want to read. But I fall asleep within the first chapter every time which annoys me as they are really interesting!

RLS known for his writing. A Child's Garden of Verses has a very dear place in my heart.

He wrote Treasure Island

Treasure island, kidnapped and The Strange Case of DrJekyll & Mr Hyde

ProfYaffle that song's brilliant!

I'd never heard of "The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing", and now I need to listen to everything they've ever done.

Yes I knew

Haven't read most of the thread but my first thought was trains too! Ha! Oh dear!

It's ok, my mate once said Ron Jeremy was a former politician in a pub quiz!

@SpikeDearheart

He also wrote the poem that the Outlander theme is based on.

“ Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, say, could that lad be I?”

“Merry of soul, he sailed on a day, Over the sea to Skye”

W.E Henley was a poet & a friend of RLS and Henley had only one leg so is thought to have inspired Long John Silver In Treasure Island. His daughter Margaret inspired Wendy in Peter Pan by J.M Barrie.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=S87mKwgYR6A
A little song to help with any confusion.