(one might expect on a mountain journey).and the seeming brutal wars fought in the 1700's between the Protestants and the Catholics.I mean with names and dates and tactics and on and on and on.(yawn.my goodness, I'm sorry!!). Once the 2 of them find their groove, we go on an on about the scenery.(many chestnut trees in this part of France, apparently).the steepness of the trails. Not totally sure what the purpose of his journey is, other than to contemplate and commune with nature.under the stars.and in dirty inadequate inns.(yawn - excuse me!). He has apparently no experience with an animal of this ilk and struggles to get his gear in order and the animal to abide. This is likely an autobiographical smaller work about Stevenson walking thru the mountains of France as an Englishman with a recently purchased donkey he named Modestine. Read more pieces are classics of travel writings, which reveal as much about Stevenson's character as the landscape he travels through.A bit of a yawner here.started out almost OK and got progressively worse in my book.
Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again - this time crossing the Atlantic and the breadth of America in the hope of being re-united with Fanny, an experience he recorded in The Amateur Emigrant. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey. In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman.
His response was to embark on journeys through Cevennes and America where he wrote 'Travels With a Donkey' and 'The Amateur Emigrant'.
Description for Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Paperback.
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