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It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country.
£4.99 – £15.99
| Author |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|---|
| Imprint |
A Thousand Fields |
| Categories |
Biography & Memoir Environmentalist & Naturalist Biographies Essays Essays, Literary Collections & Criticism Literary Studies Literature: History & Criticism Nature Essays |
| ISBN | 9781447409373, 9781473388482 |
| Formats Available | |
| Pages | 60, 58 |
| Publication Date | 17 May 2011 |
| Dimensions | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country. There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good; and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettanti, than from a railway train. But landscape on a walking tour is quite accessory. He who is indeed of the brotherhood does not voyage in quest of the picturesque, but of certain jolly humours-of the hope and spirit with which the march begins at morning, and the peace and spiritual repletion of the evening’s rest.
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