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TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CÉVENNES

TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CÉVENNES

AND OTHER TRAVEL WRITINGS

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2019
ISBN:
978-0-486-82931-9
Pages:
240
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Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest writing in that vein, starting with "An Inland Voyage." This 1878 chronicle of a canoe journey through Belgium and France charmingly captures the European villages and townspeople of a bygone era. Other selections include "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes," a humorous account of a mountain trek, and "Forest Notes," a meditation on nature based on visits to the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris and adjacent artists' colonies. These early writings offer captivating insights into Stevenson's bohemian nature and the wanderlust that sent him from his native Scotland to journeys around the world.

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