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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: By Robert Louis Stevenson

    Philly Willy

    Paperback (Independently published, March 20, 2020)
    Robert Louis Stevenson spent 12 days walking 120 miles from Le Monastier to St. Jean du Gard in the Cevennes. His only companion was Modestine, a donkey. He traveled as his fancy led him, stopping to sleep whenever occasion offered.Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes is a classic French travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Hardcover (Prince Classics, July 28, 2019)
    Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. His journey was designed to provide material for publication while allowing him to distance himself from a love affair with an American woman of which his friends and families did not approve and who had returned to her husband in California.Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the CĂ©vennes mountains in south-central France in 1878.The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of someone traveling in his fashion. Some locals are horrified that he would sleep outdoors and suggest it is dangerous to do so because of wolves or robbers. Stevenson provides the reader with the philosophy behind his undertaking:
  • Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (Independently published, Sept. 10, 2018)
    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1879. Complete and unabridged.
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  • TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone.

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Hardcover (Folio Society, March 15, 1967)
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  • Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, Feb. 26, 2019)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 14, 2016)
    Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of his earliest published works and is considered a classic of outdoor literature. A great addition to the collection. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com
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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug. 31, 2017)
    'Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes' is a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. It recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the CĂ©vennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. 'Travels with a Donkey in the CĂ©vennes' is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity.
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  • Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Billy Hartman

    Audio CD (Naxos Audio Books, Sept. 1, 1994)
    This is the enchanting account of a Stevenson's 1878 journey in rural France, alone with his pack-donkey Modestine.
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 15, 2014)
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) may have traveled more than the characters in some of his critically acclaimed and world renowned novels. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and traveling writer who wore classics like Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson was so accomplished that he was a celebrity during his lifetime, and he left an influence on great writers who followed him, including Hemingway and Kipling. At the same time, his works are easy enough to read that they can be taught in classrooms across the world to teenagers.
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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 28, 2017)
    The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue 'Travels with a Donkey, ' written by a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever hopeful of encountering the adventure he yearned for and raising much needed finance at the start of his writing career, Stevenson embarked on the120 mile, 12 day trek and recorded his experiences in this journal. His only companion for the trip was a predictably stubborn donkey called Modestine. 'Travels with a Donkey' gives the reader a rare glimpse of the character of the author, and the journalistic and often comical style of writing is in refreshing contrast to Stevenson's more famous works.
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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 13, 2017)
    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes "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." "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.
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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Clean Bright Classics

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 29, 2017)
    Travels with a Donkey is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. The book recounts Stevenson's 12-day solo hiking journey through sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity.
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