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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and the Amateur Emigrant

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141439464

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 236g

  • RRP: £8.99

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and the Amateur Emigrant

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey. Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again - this time crossing the Atlantic and the breadth of America in the hope of being re-united with Fanny, an experience he recorded in The Amateur Emigrant. Both pieces are classics of travel writings, which reveal as much about Stevenson's character as the landscape he travels through.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141439464

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 236g

  • RRP: £8.99

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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