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- Herausgeber: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
"An Inland Voyage” (1878) is one of the most well known R.L.Stevenson's travelogues. In 1878 the outdoor excursions were an unusual pastime so Stevenson seeks to present the reader an innocent, showing Europe Gypsies and puppeteers, features military companies that spend their time in grotesque parades and old country essays that don't know anything outside of their small village. Even here the author uses his great powers of observation to guide his audience's eyes in the knowledge of the different aspects of Europe of his time.
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An Inland Voyage
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Preface to the First Edition
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 by-Day
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
Epilogue to “An Inland Voyage”
Preface to the First Edition
To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour.
It is best, in such circumstances, to represent a delicate shade of manner between humility and superiority: as if th
