Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

EnglishPaperback / softback
Robert Louis Stevenson
John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
EAN: 9781909612624
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Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed through Belgium and France, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties and pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging and charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour and humanity, poetry and perspicacity, ebullience and intelligence. Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep.
EAN 9781909612624
ISBN 1909612626
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Publication date February 19, 2015
Pages 97
Language English
Dimensions 132 x 198 x 9
Country United Kingdom
Authors ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Edition 2 ed