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This volume of Stevenson's travel writings includes his first published book "An Island Voyage" (1878) - a vivid account of a canoe voyage in Belgium and France in two sail-powered skiffs, named "Cigarette" and "Arethusa" - and Stevenson's popular description of a tour with his recalcitrant donkey Modestine, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" (1879). Stevenson's natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life are borne out by these works.Contents:-An Inland Voyage-Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes-Miscellaneous Essays (Roads, Ordered South, & Walking Tours)-Memories of Fontainebleau (Forest Notes & Fontainebleau: Village Community of Painters)-Swiss Notes (Health and Mountains, Davos in Winter, Alpine Diversions, & The Stimulation of the Alps)
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and Selected Travel Writings, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1992
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- (souple)
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Éditeur
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publié
- 1992
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0192826298
- ISBN13
- 9780192826299
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Cartes et voyages, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Voyage, Autobiographies et mémoires
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- This volume of Stevenson's travel writings includes his first published book "An Island Voyage" (1878) - a vivid account of a canoe voyage in Belgium and France in two sail-powered skiffs, named "Cigarette" and "Arethusa" - and Stevenson's popular description of a tour with his recalcitrant donkey Modestine, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" (1879). Stevenson's natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life are borne out by these works.Contents:-An Inland Voyage-Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes-Miscellaneous Essays (Roads, Ordered South, & Walking Tours)-Memories of Fontainebleau (Forest Notes & Fontainebleau: Village Community of Painters)-Swiss Notes (Health and Mountains, Davos in Winter, Alpine Diversions, & The Stimulation of the Alps)