![]() ![]() Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of someone traveling in his fashion. It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. ![]() ![]() It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. 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.Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200 kilometres (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.Background:Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. ![]()
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