An inland voyage
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-18942011
Book
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer; he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climes and social orthodoxy. Along the way he travelled through the Cevennes with a donkey, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Pacific. The canoeing trip through Belgium and northern France that Stevenson describes in An Inland Voyage was taken in 1876, when the author was 26 years old. Stevenson and his companion, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, each had a kayak-style wooden canoe, with a deck and rigged with a sail. Starting in Belgium and then travelling downriver in France from Maubeuge (near Mons) to Pontoise on the outskirts of Paris, the book paints a charming picture of Western Europe at a more innocent time.
Main title:
An inland voyage / Robert Louis Stevenson.
Work:
Imprint:
Oxford, U.K. : John Beaufoy, 2011.
Collation:
viii, 118 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: 1878.
Contents:
Antwerp to Boom -- On the Willebroek Canal -- The Royal Sport Nautique -- At Maubeuge -- On The Sambre Canalised: To Quartes -- Pont-sur-Sambre: We are pedlars -- Pont-sur-Sambre: The travelling merchant -- On the Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies -- At Landrecies -- Sambre And Oise Canal: Canal boats -- The Oise in flood -- Origny Sainte-Benoite: A byday -- Origny Sainte-Benoite: The company at table; Down the Oise: To Moy -- La Fere of cursed memory -- Down The Oise: Through the Golden Valley -- Noyon Cathedral -- Down the Oise: To Compiegne -- At Compiegne -- Changed times -- Down the Oise: Church interiors -- Precy and the Marionnettes -- Back to the world.
ISBN:
9781906780401
Dewey class:
914.404812914.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
45413
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Travel | TRAVEL 914.4 STEV | Available |