Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Annotated)

Download or read book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Annotated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson.(1879) is one of the first published works of Robert Louis Stevenson and is considered a classic pioneer of outdoor literature. Stevenson was in his early 20s and still depended on the help of his parents. Her trip was designed to provide material for publication while allowing her to distance herself from a love story with an American woman that her friends and family did not approve of and that she had returned to her husband in California. Travel 12-day, 200-kilometer (120-mile) accounts of Stevenson's solo excursion touring the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its heather-filled slopes Barren rocky, it is often compared to parts of Scotland. The other main character is Modestine, a stubborn and manipulative donkey that he could never dominate. It is one of the first accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells about the launch of one of the first sleeping bags, big and heavy enough to need a donkey to carry. Stevenson is repeatedly mistaken for a street vendor, the usual occupation of someone who travels his way.