![]() In the end he concludes that the journey was "very agreeable and fortunate for me."Ī slow and mellow read. ![]() Rebuffed by innkeepers, who take him for a peddler or worse, he decides that "trees are the most civil society" and rediscovers in nature "those truths which are revealed to savages and hid from political economists." At Our Lady of the Snows monastery he is hospitably received but "annoyed beyond endurance" by proselytizing. ![]() In some places he encounters hospitality, in others fear and hostility, but everywhere, curiosity. With humor and irritation he describes his interactions with locals and reflects on their class consciousness. These non-fiction accounts of camping and canoeing in France and Belgium were written in the refined and polished prose we have come to expect from Robert Louis Stevenson. ![]()
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