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Travels with a donkey in the Ćévennes / Robert Louis Stevenson

Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Published
[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 electronic document (168 pages))
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Contents
Title; Contents; Preface; VELAY; The Donkey, the Pack, and the Pack-Saddle; The Green Donkey-Driver; I Have a Goad; UPPER GEVAUDAN; A Camp in the Dark; Cheylard and Luc; OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS; Father Apollinaris; The Monks; The Boarders; UPPER GEVAUDAN (continued); Across the Goulet; A Night Among the Pines; THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS; Across the Lozere; Pont De Montvert; In the Valley of the Tarn; Florac; In the Valley of the Mimente; The Heart of the Country; The Last Day; Farewell, Modestine!
Summary
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cévennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still popular today; recently when asked why the Scotsman still informs the...
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ISBN
9781775415190
1775415198
Note
Archived by the National Library of New Zealand.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sep. 15, 2010).
"From a 1907 edition."--Title page verso.
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