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Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage is his first published book (1878). It is a travelogue, a pioneering work of touristic adventure, which records his canoeing holiday in the summer of 1876, with a friend (Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson), through the waterways of Belgium and France. RLS, then 26 years old, is The Arethusa, named after his vessel, and his friend, The Cigar. It is, for the most part, a gentle journey, written in the Romantic style, full of humour, philosophical reflection, bygone charm and very frequent rain.

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

Dana Snyman is volksbesit. Met Die binneland in verken hy ons land en sy mense vandag. Dana reis landin, op soek na sekerheid en lig. Hy rou oor dié wat weggeval het, soos Fred Mouton. Hy gesels met die karwag wat Adriaan Vlok onthou en oom Bok Horn wat ’n leeu uitoorlê het. In die nadraai van die pandemie, met beurtkrag, oorlog in die Oekraïne, en die politiek, begin mense opgee, ook op hulself. Maar Dana vind hoop, liefde – en veral geloof.