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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

✍ Scribed by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Publisher
Duke Classics
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cévennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still popular today; recently when asked why the Scotsman still informs the identity of the Cevennes, a politician and historian of the area remarked "Because he showed us the landscape that makes us who we are."

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Authors, Scottish;Authors, Scottish--19th century;Travel;Biographies;Electronic books;Cévennes Mountains (France) -- Description and travel;Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Travel -- France -- Cévennes Mountains;Authors, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography;Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894;France -- Cévennes Mountains

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