Preface

An Inland Voyage

by Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894)

As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He and a friend traveled by canoe through France and Belgium and he relates how they were thrown in jail, mistaken for traveling salesmen and became embroiled in gypsy life. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Listen next episodes of An Inland Voyage:
Antwerp to Boom , At Compiegne , At Landrecies , At Mauberge , Back To The World , Changed Times , Down The Oise: Church Interiors , Down The Oise Through The Golden Valley , Down The Oise To Compiegne , Down The Oise To Moy , La Fere Of Cursed Memory , Noyon Cathedral , On The Sambre Canalised , On The Sambre Canalised To Landrecies , Origny Sainte-Benoite -- A By-Day , Origny Sainte-Benoite -- The Company At Table , Pont-Sur-Sambre -- The Travelling Merchant , Pont-Sur-Sambre -- We Are Pedlars , Precy And The Marionnettes , Sambre And Oise Canal -- Canal Boats , The Oise In Flood , The Royal Sport Nautique , The Willebroek Canal