Waterstones Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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Price: £6.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed through Belgium and France, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties and pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging and charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour and humanity, poetry and perspicacity, ebullience and intelligence. Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language, with authors hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781909612624
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781909612624
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Author: Gadget Freak
Rating: 5
Review: I have wanted to read this classic for some time and was finally prompted by Richard E Grant’s recent sojourn through parts of Europe, Write around the world in which he reads quotes from the book. This short story is a joy to read if you enjoy Stevenson’s unique writing style and his sheer joy of travel. His journey through the Cevennes in the late 19th century describes the rugged terrain and the equally rugged local people he meets on the way. His donkey friend Modestine is the bane of his life as he cajoles and urges her to make the journey with him. All in all a really pleasant read when you are relaxing on holiday. I highly recommend it.
Author: Joan J
Rating: 3
Review: I really can't recommend this edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous work because the typesetting is so bad. The most glaring howler is that (presumably by digital error) every em dash has been changed to a single hyphen, without even a space to prevent words from running together across the page. The result is disastrous. Happily, many better editions of this wonderful account of his youthful travels are currently in print, so it's easy for other readers to avoid my mistake.
