'From the off, the beauty of Stevenson’s tone is set: the narrator of Inland Voyage is cordial and armed with an urbane wit inured to disaster'
Inland Voyage: photographs by Quentin Pruvost, text by Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Light MotivNOWHERE is uninteresting, not even Belgium. So argues Jonathan Meades, who made a strange and brilliant programme about the country in 1994.
Quentin Pruvost is a French photographer based in the Pays de Mormal where much of Inland Voyage takes place and his pretty volume follows in Stevenson’s tracks. Stevenson and Simpson are named after their Rob Roy canoes rigged with a sail – respectively Arethusa and Cigarette. Soon “other ‘long shore’ vanities were left behind”.
The Edinburgh writer’s taste for the aphoristic is on immediate display saying this of his journey: “Discomfort, when it is honestly uncomfortable and makes no nauseous pretentions to the contrary, is a vastly humorous business.”
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