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       Robert Louis Stevenson

      Robert Louis Stevenson: Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Island Studies

      Autobiographical Writings and Essays

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      ISBN 978-80-272-0017-7

      Table of Contents

       An Inland Voyage

       Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

       Edinburgh – Picturesque Notes

       Random Memoirs and Portraits

       The Old and New Pacific Capitals

       The Amateur Emigrant

       Across the Plains

       The Silverado Squatters

       A Mountain Town in France

       The Island Literature:

       A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

       In the South Seas

       Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Japp

       Table of Contents

       DEDICATION

       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

       THE OISE IN FLOOD

       ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE – A BY-DAY

       ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE THE COMPANY AT TABLE

       DOWN THE OISE TO MOY

       LA FÈRE OF CURSED MEMORY

       DOWN THE OISE THROUGH THE GOLDEN VALLEY

       NOYON CATHEDRAL

       DOWN THE OISE TO COMPIÈGNE

       AT COMPIÈGNE

       CHANGED TIMES

       DOWN THE OISE CHURCH INTERIORS

       PRÉCY AND THE MARIONNETTES

       BACK TO THE WORLD

       EPILOGUE

      DEDICATION

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      TO SIR WALTER GRINDLAY SIMPSON, BART.

       My dear “Cigarette,”

       It was enough that you should have shared so liberally in the rains and portages of our voyage; that you should have had so hard a paddle to recover the derelict “Arethusa” on the flooded Oise: and that you should thenceforth have piloted a mere wreck of mankind to Origny Sainte-Benoîte and a supper so eagerly desired. It was perhaps more than enough, as you once somewhat piteously complained, that I should have set down all the strong language to you, and kept the appropriate reflections for myself. I could not in decency expose you to share the disgrace of another and more public shipwreck. But now that this voyage of ours is going into a cheap edition, that peril, we shall hope, is at an end, and I may put your name on the burgee.

      But I cannot pause till I have lamented the fate of our two ships. That, sir, was not a fortunate day when we projected the possession of a canal barge; it was not a fortunate day when we shared our daydream with the most hopeful of daydreamers. For a while, indeed, the world looked smilingly. The barge was procured and christened, and as the “Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne,” lay for some months, the admired of all admirers, in a pleasant river and under the walls of an ancient town. M. Mattras, the accomplished carpenter of Moret, had