The Rob Roy on the Baltic: A Canoe Cruise

By John MacGregor, M.A.

The Rob Roy on the Baltic

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John MacGregor's delightful second voyage in 1866 through Norway and Sweden, then across the Baltic to Denmark and Prussia, and on to the North Sea island of Heligioland. A joyous voyage that solidified MacGregor's reputation. Complete with MacGregor's 36 sketches and four maps of the voyage. Contains MacGregor's description of how the Rob Roy canoe was constructed.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
The New Canoe — Venerable Suit — Victualling — Livestock — Norway — A Watery Land — The Dresine — A Thinking.
CHAPTER II.
Too fast — Oklangen Lake — Refractory Rice — Tracts — Papier Machι — A Thought or Two — Old Lady No. 1 — Dark Music — Behind the Scenes — Mamma and Daughter — Rapids of the Vrangs.
Fly, sail, and paddle. CHAPTER III.
Natives — How do you find the Way? — Which is it? — Water-logged — Wood, Wood — Dragging — Soft Men — Man in the Moon — Sleep-walker.
CHAPTER IV.
Bivouac — Stick to the Boat — Thirty Miles a Day — Politeness — Dame Cyclops — Miss Kjerstin — Dazzled — Elga Lake — Pike and Cream — Sluggard — A Little Bill.
CHAPTER V. 49 A Hundred Luncheons — Luxury — Wake Up — Wait for Events— John Bull at Home — Vermland — Model Wife — Chat in Latin — Manners.
CHAPTER VI.
Caught in a Squall — Lost! Lost! Lost! — Cholera ward — Alone in a Lantern — A Strange Duet — On Deck — French Sailors — Yankee — Cockney — Cauliflowers.
CHAPTER VII.
Ladies’ Locks — Tailoring — Canoe Chat — Whispers — Motala Strφm — London Scottish R.V. — Charming Family — Lake Vettern — For England — Monitors — Sister Craft — The Gunboat — Morning Call.
CHAPTER VIII.
Washing Day — Feeding on Tin — Horse Steak — Queer College — Choosing Partners — Laborious Wedding — That Tiresome Wire — Roxen Locks — Murdered Tongue — Observation — Solus — Lone Happiness.
CHAPTER IX.
Poke the Fire — Flies and Flies — Sport and Play — Won’t give in — Breakers!— Bivouac — Surgeon’s report — Search for a Town — Norrkφping Falls — Rest.
CHAPTER X.
Right about Face — Another revolution — A Radical Tory — Boys’ Beadle — You shall teach — On the Baltic — Maps — Launched — Fog at Sea — Man in the Mist — A Night Peril — Stockholm.
CHAPTER XI.
Stockholm— The “Times”— The Exhibition— Bears and Bogies — Outrigger — Beautiful City — Lady Canoeists — Town Life.
CHAPTER XII.
Rob Roy in the Press — Ongbots — Lake Mδlar — Lake Hjelmare — Solemn Speed — The Dannemora Mine.
CHAPTER XIII.
Midnight Music — Catechism — Law and Justice — Mobbed on the Rail — Good Dog — A Linguist — From Venern — Sinking Rock.
CHAPTER XIV.
Bravo! — White Squall — Trolhatta Falls — Urchins —Prisoner — Fishing Sailing — The Whirlpools — Spying — Pretty Sophy — Thanks, Gentlemen!
CHAPTER XV.
Paper Money — Scraps — Mulled Claret — The Volunteers — Swedish National Air — Swedish Soldiers — Over the Sound — Betsy Jane — A Challenge — Copenhagen — Tie to the Dane.
CHAPTER XVI.
Big Buttons — Canoe for the Casual — Beds! — Rob Roy Senior — An Old Friend — Inquisitive — Sprogι Island — The Great Belt — Lost a Head — Down, Down — The False Stroke — Lake Dull — Green Sailors — Polite in Peril.
CHAPTER XVII.
Girls don’t matter — Stolen — Attack on the Forts — Sφnderburg — Libels — Forts of Dόppel — Soldiers’ Graves.
CHAPTER XVIII.
England abroad — Invaders — Pickled Tongue — Explosion — Wrecked — Drift on the Reef — Crying for Joy — Saved.
CHAPTER XIX.
Old Rowlock — Foam — Isles of Denmark — Lollipops — Back Doors.
CHAPTER XX.
Hamburg Warriors — Mechanics’ Institution — Popple on the Elbe — Trying a Tow — Dutchman, ahoy! — Too fast by far — Rude — “Mout” — Sleeping on Apples — Curious Voyage — Looking on — Lady Rowers — Grandmamma — Race with a Lady — Tongue-tied.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Wizard — Hard Times — Buffeting — Son of a Sponge — Attack by Natives — White Lies — Pyramid Wave — Dry — His Mother.
CHAPTER XXII.
Heligoland — The Incongruous — Can’t get out — Law in a Nutshell — Red Tape — Island of Dune — Envy — Round the Island — Sharks — Memo — On the Weser — Hanover — Tourists’ Glances.
CHAPTER XXIII.
River Geste— Roast Beef— Horrid!— Salt Beef.
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Cornwall — Running over a Steamer — Gushing — Queen Elizabeth — The Last Peril — Road to Death — Driven Mad — Touching Sight.
APPENDIX
(A.) Canoe Chat
(B.) Description of the Rob Roy
(C.) Danish Missions

 

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Title: The Rob Roy on the Baltic: A Canoe Cruise
Author: John MacGregor
Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing
Mechanicals: 5x8 - trade paperback
236 pages
ISBN-10: 1-929516-20-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-929516-20-9
Price: U.S. $14.99

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