The Stevensons in Samoa: The moving testimony of a real adventure and an extraordinary marriage. "Our twelfth wedding anniversary. This is unbelievable. Just as unbelievable as the fact that we came here two years ago to live in the bush," notes Fanny Stevenson, the ten years older wife of the world-famous writer, in her diary on May 19, 1892. On the island group of Samoa, the couple found a climate that allowed the lung-sick Robert Louis Stevenson to live a tolerable life in his final years; this exotic episode has given the literary world one of its most romantic and beloved legends. But how romantic was this time really? Fanny's diary, now published in German for the first time, provides insight into a pioneering existence on the edge of civilization, where the Stevensons increasingly became advocates for the indigenous people.