![]() ![]() ![]() Roger Duvoisin, who has illustrated this loveliest of all editions of Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and thereby himself contributed greatly to its loveliness, is not a Cévénol but a Swiss. I’m looking forward to taking this with me the next time I take a few days off and escape from the hustle and bustle of downtown.Īs always, the Limited Editions Club commissioned their own artwork for their edition, and the Monthly Letter provides many interesting anecdotes. It’s considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature and Stevenson’s ‘sleeping sack’ influenced modern-day sleeping bags. ![]() The route that he took has since become very popular, and there’s actually a little tourist industry in the Cévennes that caters to hikers who want to retrace Stevenson’s route on the trail, now known as GR70. It chronicles a twelve-day, one hundred and twenty mile hike he took through the south of France with his donkey Modestine. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s earliest works, written while he was still in his twenties and published in 1879. ![]()
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