Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson's birthplace. He lived there on and off for the first 29 years of his life, and continued to visit the city until 1887, after which time he left Scotland, and Europe, forever. Wherever he was, RLS often returned to Edinburgh imaginatively. He wrote about the city in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878), and it was also a setting for Deacon Brodie (1880), Admiral Guinea (1884), "The Body Snatcher" (1884), Kidnapped (1886),"The Misadventures of John Nicholson" (1887), The Wrecker (1892), Catriona (1893), Weir of Hermiston and St Ives (1898).