Resumen, personajes principales (nombre y breve descripcion) y final de el libro "An inland voyage" de R?

An Inland Voyage(1878) is atraveloguebyRobert Louis Stevensonabout acanoeingtrip through France and Belgium in 1876.

It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work ofoutdoor literature.

As a young man, Stevenson desired to be financially independent so that he might pursue the woman he loved, and set about funding his freedom from parental support by writing travelogues, the three most prominent beingAn Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes(1879) andThe Silverado Squatters(1883).

Voyagewas undertaken with Stevenson's Scottish friend SirWalter Grindlay Simpson, mostly along theOise Riverfrom Belgium through France, in the Fall of 1876 when Stevenson was 26 years old.

The first part, in Belgium, passed through heavily industrial areas and manycanallocks, proving to be not much of a vacation.

They then went by rail to France, starting downriver atMaubeugeand ending atPontoise, close to theSeine.

The route itinerary has become a popular route for modern travelers to re - enact with guidebooks and maps available.

Stevenson (named "Arethusa" in the book after his canoe) and Simpson (called "Cigarette" along with his canoe) each had a wooden canoe rigged with a sail, comparable in style to a modernkayak, known as a"Rob Roy".

They were narrow, decked, and paddled with double - bladed paddles, a style that had recently become popular in England, France, and neighboring countries, inspired by Scottish explorerJohn MacGregor's bookA Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe(1866).

Outdoor travel for leisure was unusual for the time, and the two Scotsmen were often mistaken for lowly traveling salesman (a status that more than once kept them from a room for the night), but the novelty of their canoes would occasion entire villages to come out and wave along the banks with cheers of "come back soon!

" A fundamentallyRomanticwork in style and tone, the book paints a delightful atmosphere of Europe in a more innocent time, with quirky innkeepers, traveling entertainers and puppeteers, old men who had never left their villages, ramshackle military units parading with drums and swords, andgypsy - like families who lived oncanal barges.

The first edition was published byC.

Kegan Paul & Co.

Since then there have been several editions ; a later edition adds an adventure on foot in which Stevenson is thought to be a beggar and is tossed in jail by police, and also a preface by Stevenson's future wifeFanny Vandegrift Osbourneand stepsonLloyd Osbourne, who met him on this journey.