A Canterbury Pilgrimage

A Canterbury Pilgrimage

TO Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, We, who are unknown to him, dedicate this record of one of our short journeys on a Tricycle, in gratitude for the happy hours we have spent travelling with him and his Donkey. We do not think our book needs an apology, explanation, or preface; nor does it seem to us worth while to give our route-form, since the road from London to Canterbury is almost as well known to cyclers as the Strand, or the Lancaster Pike; nor to record our time, since we were pilgrims and not scorchers. And as for non-cyclers, who as yet know nothing of time and roads, we would rather show them how pleasant it is to go on pilgrimage than weary them with cycling facts. It was towards the end of August, when a hot sun was softening the asphalt in the dusty streets of London, and ripening the hops in the pleasant land of Kent, that we went on pilgrimage to Canterbury. Ours was no ordinary journey by rail, which is the way latter-day pilgrims mostly travel. No. What we wanted was in all reverence to follow, as far as it was possible, the road taken by the famous company of bygone days, setting out from the hostelrie where these[Pg 12] lordings lay one night and held counsel, making stations by the way at the few places they mention by name, and ending it, as they did, at the shrine of the holy, blissful martyr, in the Canterbury Cathedral. How better could this be done than by riding over the ground made sacred by them on our tricycle? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 36383
Author: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Release Date: Jun 11, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926