As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He and a friend traveled by canoe through France and Belgium and he relates how they were thrown in jail, mistaken for traveling salesmen and became embroiled in gypsy life.

Latest episodes of the podcast Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Preface
• Antwerp to Boom
• The Willebroek Canal
• The Royal Sport Nautique
• At Mauberge
• On The Sambre Canalised
• Pont-Sur-Sambre -- We Are Pedlars
• Pont-Sur-Sambre -- The Travelling Merchant
• On The Sambre Canalised To Landrecies
• At Landrecies
• Sambre And Oise Canal -- Canal Boats
• The Oise In Flood
• Origny Sainte-Benoite -- A By-Day
• Origny Sainte-Benoite -- The Company At Table
• Down The Oise To Moy
• La Fere Of Cursed Memory
• Down The Oise Through The Golden Valley
• Noyon Cathedral
• Down The Oise To Compiegne
• At Compiegne
• Changed Times
• Down The Oise: Church Interiors
• Precy And The Marionnettes
• Back To The World