tion>Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays of Travel
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664647245
Table of Contents
To ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND REVIEW
II. COCKERMOUTH AND KESWICK A FRAGMENT 1871
IV. A WINTER’S WALK IN CARRICK AND GALLOWAY A FRAGMENT 1876
VI. A MOUNTAIN TOWN IN FRANCE [175] A FRAGMENT 1879
VII. RANDOM MEMORIES: ROSA QUO LOCORUM
XII. THE STIMULATION OF THE ALPS
XIV. ON THE ENJOYMENT OF UNPLEASANT PLACES 1874
I.
THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT
To
ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON
Our friendship was not only founded before we were born by a community of blood, but is in itself near as old as my life. It began with our early ages, and, like a history, has been continued to the present time. Although we may not be old in the world, we are old to each other, having so long been intimates. We are now widely separated, a great sea and continent intervening; but memory, like care, mounts into iron ships and rides post behind the horseman. Neither time nor space nor enmity can conquer old affection; and as I dedicate these sketches, it is not to you only, but to all in the old country, that I send the greeting of my heart.
R.L.S.
1879.
THE SECOND CABIN
I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom
