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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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We stowed the canoes in a granary, and asked among the children for
a guide. The circle at once widened round us, and our offers of
reward were received in dispiriting silence. We were plainly a pair
of Bluebeards to the children; they might speak to us in public
places, and where they had the advantage of numbers; but it was
another thing to venture off alone with two uncouth and legendary
characters, who had dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this
quiet afternoon, sashed and beknived, and with a flavor of great
voyages.-from "Pont-sur-Sambre: We Are Peddlers"The sly wit and
keenly observant eye that makes Robert Louis Stevenson a continuing
favorite with readers is in full force in this 1913 volume, a
compilation of two of the writer's least known but most purely
enjoyable works. In 1876, Stevenson canoed through Belgium and
France with his friend, Sir Walter Simpson, an exploit that
resulted in the delightful An Inland Voyage; two years later, he
took a walking tour of the C vannes, which became Travels with a
Donkey. More that just wonderfully escapist, these essays offer a
glimpse into the mind and memories of an author's imagination, and
serve as a vital psychological backdrop for the tales of adventure,
romance, and horror related in Stevenson's fiction.OF INTEREST TO:
Stevenson fans, armchair travelers, readers of classic British
literatureAlso available from Cosimo Classics: Stevenson's Across
the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays.
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