A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War.
These involved the three colonial powers battling for control of Samoa - America, Germany and Britain - and the indigenous factions struggling to.
He quickly became passionately interested, and involved, in the attendant political machinations.
Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima.
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War