Title: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
First published: 1879
Description: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes 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, a politician and historian of the area remarked "Because he showed us the landscape that makes us who we are."
Subjects: Biography, Cevennes Mountains, Description and travel, English Authors, Journeys, Nonfiction, Scottish Authors, Travel, Cevennes mountains (france), France, description and travel, Voyages and travels
Places: Cévennes Mountains, Cévennes Mountains (France), Cévennes Mountains Region, Cévennes Mountains Region (France), France
People: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Time periods: 19th century