Robert Louis Stevenson

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circa 1890: Scottish novelist, poet and traveller Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Alicia McKenzie in Jekyll and Hyde PIC: Rhys Watson

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Elizabeth Robson was stunned to find the vintage book, which was published in 1905.

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The tours can be used virtually, at home, or on a self-guided, socially distanced walk in the footsteps of the young Stevenson, before he left the city of his birth at the age of 27, never to return.

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