The Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer
by Gordon Stables
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
- Title
- The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan
- Credits
- Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- England -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37687
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37687
- Release Date
- October 10, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2."Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan" — Preface. — Chapter One. — Introductory—Written Before Starting. — Chapter Two. — The Caravan Itself—First Trials—Getting Horsed. — Chapter Three. — First Experiences of Gipsy Life—The Trial Trip—A ThunderStorm on Maidenhead Thicket. — Chapter Four. — Twyford and the Regions around it. — Chapter Five. — A First Week’s Outing. — Chapter Six. — Our Last Spring Ramble. — Chapter Seven. — A Start for the Far North—From Reading to Warwick. — Chapter Eight. — Leamington and Warwick—A Lovely Drive—A Bit of Black Country—Ashby-de-la-Zouch. — Chapter Nine. — A Quiet Sunday at Lount—A Visit to a Pottery—Beeston Hall—A Broiling Day. — Chapter Ten. — Doncaster—Brentley—Askern—Dinner on a Yorkshire Wold. — Chapter Eleven. — A Day in the Life of a Gentleman Gipsy. — Chapter Twelve. — At Durham—The British Miner at Home—Gosforth—Among Northumbrian Banks—Across the Tweed. — Chapter Thirteen. — The Crew of the “Wanderer,” All Told. — Chapter Fourteen. — Letters Home, after being Months on the Road. — Chapter Fifteen. — The Humours of the Road—Inn Signs—What I am Taken for—A Study of Faces—Milestones and Finger-Posts—Tramps—The Man with the Iron Mask—The Collie Dog—Gipsies’ Dogs—A Midnight Attack on the Wanderer. — Chapter Sixteen. — Sunny Memories of the Border-Land. — Chapter Seventeen. — Scenes in Berwick—Border Marriages—Bonnie Ayton. — Chapter Eighteen. — The Journey to Dunbar—A Rainy Day. — Chapter Nineteen. — A Day at Pressmannan—The Fight for a Polonie Sausage—In the Haughs of Haddington—Mrs Carlile’s Grave—Genuine Hospitality. — Chapter Twenty. — Edinburgh—The Fisher Folks o’ Musselboro’—Through Linlithgow to Falkirk—Gipsy-Folks. — Chapter Twenty One. — Glasgow and Grief—A Pleasant Meadow—Thunderstorm at Chryston—Strange Effects—That Terrible Twelfth of August—En Route for Perth and the Grampians. — Chapter Twenty Two. — On the High Road to the Highlands. — Chapter Twenty Three. — Snow-Posts—A Moonlight Ramble—Dalwhinnie—A Danger Escaped—An Ugly Ascent—Inverness at Last. — Chapter Twenty Four. — Wild Flowers—A Hedgerow in July—Hedgerows in General—In Woodland and Copse—In Fields and in Moorlands. — Chapter Twenty Five. — A Chapter about Children—Children in Bouquets—Children by the “sad sea-wave”—sweet maudie brewer—wee dickie ellis—the miner’s sprite. — Chapter Twenty Six. — From Inverness to London—Southward Away—The “Wanderer’s” Little Mistress—A Quiet Sabbath—A Dreary Evening at Aldbourne. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — Storm-Stayed at Brighton—Along the Coast and to Lyndhurst—The New Forest—Homewards through Hants. — Chapter Twenty Eight. — Caravanning for Health. — Chapter Twenty Nine. — The Cycle as Tender to the Caravan. — Chapter Thirty. — Hints to Would-be Caravannists.
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