An Inland Voyage

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000661965
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Title:	An Inland Voyage
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R. (n.d.). An Inland Voyage. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Excerpt: 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 hisPreface: 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.

Table of Contents
Contents PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION................................................................................................. 4 ANTWERP TO BOOM ....................................................................................................................... 5 ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL...................................................................................................... 9 THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE................................................................................................... 13 AT MAUBEUGE ............................................................................................................................... 17 ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED .................................................................................................... 20 PONT-SUR-SAMBRE (We Are Pedlars) .......................................................................................... 25 PONT-SUR-SAMBRE (The Travelling Merchant) ........................................................................... 29 SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL ......................................................................................................... 40 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (A By-Day)....................................................................................... 49 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (The Company at Table) ................................................................... 53 DOWN THE OISE (To Moy) ............................................................................................................ 58 DOWN THE OISE (Through the Golden Valley) .............................................................................. 67 DOWN THE OISE (To Compiegne).................................................................................................. 72 DOWN THE OISE: CHURCH INTERIORS .................................................................................... 82 PRECY AND THE MARIONNETTES ............................................................................................ 87 BACK TO THE WORLD .................................................................................................................. 95