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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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102:. Stevenson was Protestant by upbringing, and a non-believer by philosophy. Stevenson was well-versed in the history and evokes scenes from the rebellion as he passes through the area of the rebellion during the final days of his trek. He notes that the Catholics and the Protestants, at the time of his travels, live peaceably alongside one another, though each community is faithful to its own traditions and its version of the region's history. All disapprove equally of a young Catholic man who married a Protestant girl and changed his faith, agreeing that "It's a bad idea for a man to change." As for a Catholic priest who left the priesthood and married, the sentiment common to all was that it is wrong to change one's commitments. 1267: 743: 78:, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of someone traveling in his fashion. Some locals are horrified that he would sleep outdoors and suggest it is dangerous to do so because of wolves or robbers. Stevenson provides the reader with the philosophy behind his undertaking: 22: 83:
up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. To hold a pack upon a pack-saddle against a gale out of the freezing north is no high industry, but it is one that serves to occupy and compose the mind. And when the present is so exacting who can annoy himself about the future?
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more clearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Alas, as we get
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Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. 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 family did not approve and who had returned to her
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routes taken annually by shepherds and their flocks. Asked in 2007 why this "Ecossais veritable" continues to have such an impact on the identity of the people of the Cévennes today, a local politician and historian at St Germain de Calberte told the Scottish writer
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mountains in south-central France in 1878. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative
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as one of the greatest works of English literature and names his son Robert Louis. Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title of his 1962 book
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Beginning in the last decades of the twentieth century, hikers – sometimes with donkeys – have retraced the route Stevenson took on hiking paths (
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he could never quite master. It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and
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outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells of commissioning one of the first
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The book appeared the following year, 1879, and is dedicated to his friend
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journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the
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because both Steinbeck and Elaine admired Robert Louis Stevenson's
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and Selected Travel Writings
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chronicles the author's retracing of Stevenson's journey as well.
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Downhill All The Way: Walking with donkeys on the Stevenson Trail
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recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo
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In the track of R. L. Stevenson and elsewhere in old France
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Index


Robert Louis Stevenson
outdoor literature
hiking
Cévennes
donkey
camping
sleeping bags
Protestant
Catholic
Louis XIV
Camisards
Sidney Colvin
Le Monastier
Saint-Martin-de-Fugères
Goudet
Costaros
Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas
Landos
Pradelles
Langogne
Fouzilhic
Fouzilhac
Cheylard-l'Évêque
Luc
La Bastide-Puylaurent
Our Lady of the Snows Monastery
Chasseradès
Le Bleymard
Le Pont-de-Montvert

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