If you take pleasure in armchair voyaging, Robert Louis Stevenson's "An Inland Voyage" is a delightful escape that injects the charm of simple times into the modern hustle. With Stevenson, you'll paddle through the heart of 19th century Europe, meeting characters that feel plucked from a quieter, quainter world. It's a nostalgic journey with lyrical descriptions that make the past feel present and inviting.

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Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he travelled with a donkey through the Cevennes, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. An Inland Voyage, first published in 1878, is Stevenson's earliest book. It describes a voyage undertaken with his Scottish friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, mostly along the Oise River from Belgium through France, in the autumn of 1876. Stevenson and Simpson each had a wooden canoe rigged with a sail, propelled with double-bladed paddles, a style that had recently become popular. An Inland Voyage paints a delightful picture of Europe in a more innocent time, with quirky innkeepers, travelling entertainers and puppeteers, ramshackle military units parading with drums and swords, and gypsy-like families living on canal barges.

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