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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes: A Journey Across France (Equestrian Travel Classics)
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes A Journey Across France - Equestrian Travel Classics Author:Robert Louis Stevenson In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, traveled the Cevennes Range in France with Modestine, a "self-acting bedstead on four castors," the donkey. This description of his ten days journey is a delightful mixture of descriptions of the sights intwined with the descriptions of travellers , inkeepers and other characters along the road. The interaction... more » with the mouse-colored Modestine makes this one of Stevenson's more humorous books. A companion piece titled "Inland Voyage" describes his canoe trip a year earlier. In this journey he had a human companion - Walter Simpson.« less