Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Travels with a Donkey in the CA(c)vennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the CA(c)vennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still popular today, recently when asked why the Scotsman still informs the identity of the Cevennes, ...