Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (Downloadable audio ISBN 9780857865380) book cover

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A wonderfully descriptive account of Stevenson’s travels in the Cevennes

This autobiographical story records Stevenson’s experiences of travelling in the Cevennes in 1878, accompanied by his…ahem…”trusty” donkey Modestine, who provides many amusing moments.The story also encompasses an insightful account of the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the area, and is a wonderfully descriptive reading.


Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist who achieved worldwide acclaim for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson began with essays, short stories and travel writing, most notably Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). He is best remembered for his first novel Treasure Island (1883) and for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The great Scottish novels followed, with Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Weir of Hermiston (1893), which was left unfinished at his death. Catriona (1893), was always planned as the immediate sequel to Kidnapped, but had been delayed in the writing. Stevenson spent seven years in the South Seas, settling for the last five on the island of Upolu in Samoa, where he died suddenly from a cerebral stroke at the age of forty-four.