Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1879

Total Pages: 248

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On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Annotated)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Annotated)

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-10

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson.(1879) is one of the first published works of Robert Louis Stevenson and is considered a classic pioneer of outdoor literature. Stevenson was in his early 20s and still depended on the help of his parents. Her trip was designed to provide material for publication while allowing her to distance herself from a love story with an American woman that her friends and family did not approve of and that she had returned to her husband in California. Travel 12-day, 200-kilometer (120-mile) accounts of Stevenson's solo excursion touring the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its heather-filled slopes Barren rocky, it is often compared to parts of Scotland. The other main character is Modestine, a stubborn and manipulative donkey that he could never dominate. It is one of the first accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells about the launch of one of the first sleeping bags, big and heavy enough to need a donkey to carry. Stevenson is repeatedly mistaken for a street vendor, the usual occupation of someone who travels his way.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne Annotated
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne Annotated

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-30

Total Pages: 120

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It is also one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It tells of the commissioning of one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry,

Travel with the Donkey in the Cevennes Annotated
Travel with the Donkey in the Cevennes Annotated

Author: Robert Louis

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-28

Total Pages: 112

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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Thoughts on Walking - Walking Tours - A Night among the Pines - Forest Notes
Robert Louis Stevenson's Thoughts on Walking - Walking Tours - A Night among the Pines - Forest Notes

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1473388481

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It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country. There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good; and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettanti, than from a railway train. But landscape on a walking tour is quite accessory. He who is indeed of the brotherhood does not voyage in quest of the picturesque, but of certain jolly humours-of the hope and spirit with which the march begins at morning, and the peace and spiritual repletion of the evening's rest.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Annotated Edition
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Annotated Edition

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-05

Total Pages: 122

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Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland.

An Inland Voyage
An Inland Voyage

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 177541521X

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Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book. He had decided to become free from his parent's financial support so that he might freely pursue the woman he loved; to support himself he wrote travelogues, most notably An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and The Silverado Squatters. Stevenson undertook the journey with his friend, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, at a time when such outdoor travel for leisure was considered unusual and it resulted in this romantic and original work that still inspires travelers today.

Trespass: A Novel
Trespass: A Novel

Author: Rose Tremain

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0393080609

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"Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable." —Margot Livesey, Boston Globe In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he drowns himself in drink. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun dreams of exacting retribution for a lifetime of betrayals. Into this world comes Anthony Verey, a disillusioned antiques dealer from London. When he sets his sights on the house, a frightening series of consequences is set in motion. "Rose Tremain's writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. This powerful and unsettling work, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, reveals yet another dimension to Tremain's extraordinary imagination.

Travels with a Donkey
Travels with a Donkey

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 54

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In twelve days, from September 22, 1878, until October 3, 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson walked from Le Monastier to St. Jean du Gard in the Cevennes. His only companion was Modestine, a donkey. He traveled as his fancy led him, stopping to sleep whenever occasion offered. One morning after a night's sleep out of doors Stevenson scattered coins along the road upon the turf in payment for his night's lodging. Modestine, the donkey, demanded that her owner exercise all his ingenuity. At first he loathed her for her intractable differences of opinion displayed concerning the rate of travel to be maintained. Repeated blows seemed not to influence her until he learned to use the magical word "Proot" to get her moving. Later he obtained a real goad from a sympathetic innkeeper at Bouchet St. Nicolas. Modestine was dainty in her eating. She seemed to prefer white bread, but she learned to share half of Stevenson's brown loaves with him.