Turning his back on lawyering and the family business of lighthouse design, the young Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on his literary career as travel writer with
An Inland Voyage, his day-dreamy canoe trip through rivers and canals in Belgium and northern France.
Check it out in the latest
episode of Retroscope, [Alan Bernheimer's] monthly series of literary travel writing from yesteryear in Nowhere magazine! Armchair travelers can
binge read the whole series so far.