Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Billy Hartman, Naxos, 2hr 38min, 2 CDs £10. Jimnez's donkey is his companion and confidant with whom he has long. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, 1879 Robert Louis Stevenson Huguette Martel is a painter whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. It inspired John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley, which became, to my mind, the best travel audiobook yet. The result is a romantic, funny classic of travel literature that Billy Hartman’s soft Edinburgh accent suits very well. Travels With a Donkey (Konemann Classics) Hardcover Januby Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) 557 ratings 3.6 on Goodreads 2,287 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 8.23 5 Used from 4.26 1 New from 13. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to. His 120-mile journey took him a dozen days, much of it spent cursing and goading the recalcitrant Modestine. Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. To carry it he acquired Modestine, a “she-ass not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw a faint resemblance to a lady of my acquaintance”. Like all novice travellers, he took too much with him, stuffed into a sheepskin-lined sleeping bag of his own design. An Inland Voyage is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876.

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” he says in his opening chapter. So in that year he set off for his next foray - touring the mountainous Cévennes region in the Midi, sleeping under the stars and wandering at will. In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson had published only one book, An Inland Voyage, the tale of a canoeing trip through France. After many humorous trials and tribulations, Stevenson found that his disdain for the creature had turned to love, and at the end of the trip he said goodbye with much regret. Saturday March 10 2018, 12.01am, The Times On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevenson's cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of.

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