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![]() ![]() And once there, embark upon the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail, aka Grande Randonnée 70. ![]() If you have a hint of wanderlust in your bones, Travels with a Donkey will make you want to book a flight to Paris and catch the train to Le Puy-en-Velay. Recovering on the French Riviera from a respiratory ailment, Stevenson spent 12 days walking 120 miles from the town of Le Monastier to Saint-Jean-du-Gard in the Cvennes mountain range, accompanied only by his donkey, Modestine. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes, journal by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1879. He and John Muir shared more than the same temporal space. 58) Fortunately he lived in a time when such romantic notions could be satisfied. Not surprising for a man who would subsequently find himself in the South Pacific, Stevenson confesses: “I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure such as befell early and heroic voyagers….” (p. In some ways it reads as an exercise in descriptive writing, but it is mostly a charming account of walk in 1878. 18) Travels with a Donkey preceded Treasure Island and Kidnapped and made Stevenson popular. It was a stroll of some 120 miles with more than he could alone carry: “What I required was something cheap and small and hardy, and of a stolid and peaceful temper and all these requisites pointed to a donkey.” (p. That gets you close to Robert Louis Stevenson and his Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Imagine Henry David Thoreau wandering France instead of the Maine woods, and in the company of a gentle beast of burden. ![]()
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