Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Authors, Scottish
Page: 268
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Authors, Scottish
Page: 268
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: N.A
Category: Authors, Scottish
Page: 248
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"We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many." -Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is a classic of travel literature by Robert Louis Stevenson about his 12-day, 120-mile walking tour in the French Cévennes mountain range, accompanied by his donkey, Modestine. This book is one of the first to present hiking and camping as recreational activities, and is as influential as Stevenson's fiction.Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: N.A
Category: Fiction
Page: 324
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In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds by embarking on a journey through the Cévennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, a highly entertaining account of the French and their country. The Amateur Emigrant describes his travels to and around America: the crowded weeks in steerage, the cross-country train journey. Filled with sharp-eyed observations, it brilliantly conveys Stevenson s perceptions of America and the Americans. Together, these writings reveal as much about the traveler as the places he travels to.Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810160064
Category: Travel
Page: 164
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An account of the author's 120 mile walking tour of France with his donkey, ModestineAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368253247
Category: Fiction
Page: 146
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Reproduction of the original.Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486837793
Category: Travel
Page: 240
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Includes "An Inland Voyage," chronicling a canoe journey from Belgium to France; the title piece, a humorous account of a mountain trek; and "Forest Notes," a meditation on the French countryside.Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3749470316
Category: Fiction
Page: 95
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My Dear Sidney Colvin, The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves; and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an old and kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Sidney Colvin, it is with pride that I sign myself affectionately yours, R. L. S.Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Cévennes Mountains (France)
Page: 316
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