Nonfiction · 1879
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Robert Louis Stevenson sets out alone on a twelve-day walking tour through the remote Cévennes mountains of south-central France, his belongings loaded onto a small, stubborn donkey named Modestine, sleeping under the stars and in monasteries and village inns as he goes, in a landscape still marked by the memory of a brutal eighteenth-century religious war.
Stevenson published Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes in 1879, his own account of a real journey made the previous year; an early and influential classic of outdoor travel writing, it is often credited as one of the first books to treat a walking trip taken purely for its own sake, rather than for trade or pilgrimage, as worth writing about.
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Contents
- Note
- Velay
- The Donkey, the Pack, and the Pack-Saddle
- The Green Donkey-Driver
- I Have a Goad
- Upper Gevaudan
- A Camp in the Dark
- Cheylard and Luc
- Our Lady of the Snows
- Father Apollinaris
- The Monks
- The Boarders
- Across the Goulet
- A Night Among the Pines
- The Country of the Camisards
- Across the Lozere
- Pont de Montvert
- In the Valley of the Tarn
- Florac
- In the Valley of the Mimente
- The Heart of the Country
- The Last Day
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1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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