Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes

One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s earliest published works, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is considered a classic of nature literature. Stevenson was in his late 20s in 1878 when he embarked on a 12-day, 120-mile solo hiking journey through France’s sparsely populated Cévennes Mountains. In the book, Stevenson recounts his problems with Modestine, his stubborn donkey. The work is one of the first accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a purely recreational activity. It also contains Stevenson’s use of one of the first sleeping bags, which was large and heavy enough to require a donkey for transport.



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