The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer"; or, Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan
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- Gordon Stables "The Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer" "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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