Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson: Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Island Studies
Autobiographical Writings and Essays
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0017-7
Table of Contents
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
The Old and New Pacific Capitals
A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Japp
An Inland Voyage
ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED - TO QUARTES
PONT-SUR-SAMBRE - WE ARE PEDLARS
PONT-SUR-SAMBRE - THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT
ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED TO LANDRECIES
ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE – A BY-DAY
ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE THE COMPANY AT TABLE
DOWN THE OISE THROUGH THE GOLDEN VALLEY
DOWN THE OISE CHURCH INTERIORS
DEDICATION
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