An Inland Voyage: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Inland Voyage, credited to Robert Louis Stevenson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read in English by Greg Giordano; Kara Shallenberg; DJRickyV; Lynne Thompson; TheLadyAmy; alanmapstone; Phil Schempf; Denise Nordell; Gabriela Cowan; KHand As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He and a friend traveled by canoe through France and Belgium and he relates how they were thrown in jail, mistaken for traveling salesmen and became embroiled in gypsy life. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Inland Voyage
• Author credits: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 3:56:53

Catalogue topics

• travel
• France
• Belgium
• canoes
• rail

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:50
2. 01 - Antwerp to Boom — 8:21
3. 02 - The Willebroek Canal — 11:46
4. 03 - The Royal Sport Nautique — 10:33
5. 04 - At Mauberge — 9:02
6. 05 - On The Sambre Canalised — 10:27
7. 06 - Pont-Sur-Sambre -- We Are Pedlars — 11:39
8. 07 - Pont-Sur-Sambre -- The Travelling Merchant — 10:17
9. 08 - On The Sambre Canalised To Landrecies — 10:38
10. 09 - At Landrecies — 8:53
11. 10 - Sambre And Oise Canal -- Canal Boats — 9:56
12. 11 - The Oise In Flood — 13:51
13. 12 - Origny Sainte-Benoite -- A By-Day — 9:07
14. 13 - Origny Sainte-Benoite -- The Company At Table — 9:52
15. 14 - Down The Oise To Moy — 11:37
16. 15 - La Fere Of Cursed Memory — 13:10
17. 16 - Down The Oise Through The Golden Valley — 4:40
18. 17 - Noyon Cathedral — 10:52
19. 18 - Down The Oise To Compiegne — 5:06
20. 19 - At Compiegne — 10:06
21. 20 - Changed Times — 12:53
22. 21 - Down The Oise: Church Interiors — 9:52
23. 22 - Precy And The Marionnettes — 16:49
24. 23 - Back To The World — 3:38

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