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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson writes here of his 12-day, 120-mile hike in the Cévennes, an area located at the south-eastern edge of the Massif Central region of central, southern France. He was twenty-seven and the year was 1878. His sole companion was a jenny, a female donkey, called Modestine. It was she that carried his large, clumsy, homemade “sleeping sack”!

Donkeys will be donkeys. We say they are stubborn, but what they really have is simply a strong self-preservation instinct. They will have th ...more

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