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An Inland Voyage

Name: An Inland Voyage
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Inland Voyage is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature.

“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878).

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878).

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".

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