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2 unusual facts about Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes


Giroflé-Girofla

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson saw the opera and fondly recalled it in his travel book Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).

Le Pont-de-Montvert

Robert Louis Stevenson passed through Pont-de-Montvert on the ramble narrated in his Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities.


An Inland Voyage

As a young man, Stevenson desired to be financially independent so that he might pursue the woman he loved, and set about funding his freedom from parental support by writing travelogues, the three most prominent being An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) and The Silverado Squatters (1883).


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