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A Canterbury Pilgrimage
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A Canterbury Pilgrimage.
Ridden, written, and illustrated by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
London: Published by Seeley and Company, xlvi. xlvii. xlviii. Essex Street. Mdccclxxxv.
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.
Joseph Pennell. Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
36 Bedford Place, May 14th, 1885.