£5.75
Title: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Publication c1912
Format: Hardback
Condition: Green covers with embossed title to front and spine. Spine faded with light bumping. Pages are clean and without any marks. Illustration to frontispiece.
Book measures: 16cm x 10.5cm with 176 pages
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes 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. Travels was both meant to raise money he needed to be with the woman he loved, and provide the adventure he craved, having been sickly much of his life. Travels recounts Stevenson’s 12-day, 120-mile solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The character of Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of, is memorable.
Fine paper edition with a frontispiece by Walter Crane.
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