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

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  1. 110 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

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About this book

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes 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 "e;Because he showed us the landscape that makes us who we are."e;

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. VELAY
  5. The Donkey, the Pack, and the Pack-Saddle
  6. The Green Donkey-Driver
  7. I Have a Goad
  8. UPPER GEVAUDAN
  9. A Camp in the Dark
  10. Cheylard and Luc
  11. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS
  12. Father Apollinaris
  13. The Monks
  14. The Boarders
  15. UPPER GEVAUDAN (continued)
  16. Across the Goulet
  17. A Night Among the Pines
  18. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS
  19. Across the Lozere
  20. Pont De Montvert
  21. In the Valley of the Tarn
  22. Florac
  23. In the Valley of the Mimente
  24. The Heart of the Country
  25. The Last Day
  26. Farewell, Modestine!