Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
                                            
                            By Robert Louis Stevenson
                            
                                26 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. His
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                                                Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. His journey was designed to provide material for publication while allowing him to distance himself from a love affair with an American woman of which his friends and families did not approve and who had returned to her husband in California. The book recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometer (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. Less