An Inland Voyage is Robert Louis Stevenson's early travel book about a canoe journey through Belgium and France. Written with lightness, observation, and youthful confidence, the book records river travel, inns, landscapes, weather, local encounters, and the pleasures and irritations of moving slowly through the world. Stevenson makes small incidents feel literary.
An Inland Voyage is important because it reveals the travel writer behind the adventure novelist. Its charm comes from voice: humorous, alert, and sensitive to the character of places and people. Readers interested in literary travel, nineteenth-century Europe, reflective wandering, and Stevenson's developing prose style will find a compact, graceful, and companionable journey through rivers, roads, weather, strangers, moods, movement, memory, and companionship.
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