Background
An Inland Voyage is a travel book based on Stevenson’s 1876 canoe journey with Sir Walter Simpson. The anthology’s extracted text contains the book’s sequence of journey episodes; the title has been corrected from the opening chapter heading, “Antwerp to Boom.”
Reading notes
- Follow the route through the chapter headings as if tracing a map.
- Notice how physical discomfort and comic observation coexist.
- Read the narrator’s opinions as part of his travel persona, not as neutral description.
Version note
Prepared from the English text supplied in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press bilingual anthology. The site owner confirmed publication permission for this source edition on 21 October 2026. Publisher and edition details remain recorded in the rights audit.