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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.803
EAN: 9780810160057
ISBN: 0810160056
Label: Marlboro Pr
Manufacturer: Marlboro Pr
Number Of Pages: 149
Publication Date: 1996-04
Publisher: Marlboro Pr
Studio: Marlboro Pr
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In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troublespoor health, tormented love, inadequate fundsby 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 Stevensons perceptions of America and the Americans. Together, these writings reveal as much about the traveler as the places he travels to.
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Rating:  - Donkey in France
Excellent, short book. This is a must read for anyone interested in donkeys, The Cevennes, or Robert Louis Stevenson.
Rating: - Delightful and Humorous - Sympathetic Look at an Isolated People.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1878) is among the earliest published works of Robert Louis Stevenson, and yet it is in no way inferior to his later writing that established his fame. In fact, this delightful account of Stevenson's solo trek in the Cevennes Range in south central France ranks among the best travel literature in the nineteenth century.
Wishing not to advertise that he would be camping alone in remote areas, he chose not to travel with a tent. Instead, he designed ... Read More
Rating: - Fresh, Delightful
In the late 1870s, Robert Louis Stevenson needed cash to break dependence on his parents so he could go to the woman he loved (and they did not). A chronic invalid, he also needed adventure. He decided to do some travel writing and one such trip is recounted in TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY. He headed off to the remote Cevennes mountain range of south central France and got himself kitted out nicely, so nicely, he needed assistance in carrying everything. Enter Modestine, a donkey. He might as well have ... Read More
Rating: - Looking for the Camisards in the Lozère Mountains
R.L. Stevenson writes here the first account of a touristic journey in France. He is the first modern tourist. He penetrates and discovers the country and the people of what he calls the Lozère, this mountain range in the south of The Central mountains in France, a range of mountains that was the locale of a protestant rebellion at the very beginning of the eighteenth century, severely repressed by Louis XIV. These protestant insurgers are known as the Camisards. Stevenson tries to discover the landscape, ... Read More
Rating:  - Discover a beautiful region of France
If you want to discover a beautiful and wild French region through the eyes of a Scottish writer, read Travels with a donkey. Stevenson, before he became famous, depicted his journey in the cevennes, with his donkey "Modestine". Rediscover the excellent style of a young writer about to become world-wide-known.
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