Name: Reisverhaal Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes | Robert Louis Stevenson
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Reisverhaal Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes | Robert Louis Stevenson

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 climes 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.

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Reisverhaal Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes | Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles--poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds--by embarking on a journey through the Cévennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, a highly entertaining account of the French and their country. The Amateur Emigrant describes his travels to and around America: the crowded weeks in steerage, the cross-country train journey. Filled with sharp-eyed observations, it brilliantly conveys Stevenson's perceptions of America and the Americans. Together, these writings reveal as much about the traveler as the places he travels to.

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Wandelgids GR 70: The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail van Le Puy tot St-Jean du Gard | Cicerone

Uitstekende wandelgids van een gerenommeerde Engelse uitgever. De tochten zijn met zorg beschreven en voorzien van allerhande nuttige informatie. Met beperkt kaartmateriaal. Aanbevolen wandelkaarten bij deze gids 1:100.000 Wandelkaart GR 70 The Stevenson Trail | IGN - Institut Géographique National Als overzichtskaart Of Wegenkaart 156 Le Puy en Velay - Privas - Mende | IGN - Institut Géographique National Wegenkaart 163 Avignon - Nimes | IGN - Institut Géographique National of 1:25.000 1. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2835OT Le Puy-en-Velay | IGN - Institut Géographique National 2. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2836OT Gerbier de Jonc | IGN - Institut Géographique National 3. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2736SB Monistrol d'Allier, Solignac-sur-Loire, Cayres | IGN - Institut Géographique National 4. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2737SB Langogne - Grandrieu | IGN - Institut Géographique National 5. Wandelkaart - Topografische kaart 2738SB Le Bleymard | IGN - Institut G…

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Reisverhaal Reis met een ezel | Robert Louis Stevenson

Reis met een ezel is het verslag van de twaalfdaagse, bijna tweehonderd kilometer lange reis die Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879 maakte door de ruige en nauwelijks bewoonde Franse Cevennen. Met zijn beschrijving van de koppige en eigengereide ezel Modestine schiep de man die later bekend zou worden met onder meer Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde en Schateiland onbedoeld een van de meest markante karakters uit de reisliteratuur. De afkeer die de onmachtige Stevenson aanvankelijk van Modestine geeft, verandert gaandeweg in een vertederende genegenheid. Een van de klassiekers uit de rijke Engelse reisliteratuur.

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Reisverhaal An Unexpected Light - Travels in Afghanistan | Jason Elliot

An account of a trip through war-torn and poverty-stricken Afghanistan, this remarkable book could have been titled "An Unexpected Beauty." Elliot, who first traveled to the country as a 19-year-old enthusiast of the mujahedin, has no illusions about the inherent shortcomings of travel writing ("a semi-fictional collection of descriptions that affirm the prejudices of the day"). He also dismisses the journalistic method, which relies on a single bombed-out street in Kabul to monolithically represent an entire nation. So it is not without some self-deprecation that he offers his own strange and improbable adventures in the country's lawless stretches and perilous mountain passes. "I had in mind a quietly epic sort of journey," he explains. "I had given up on earlier and more ambitious schemes and was prepared to make an ally of uncertainty, with which luck so often finds a partnership." Humorous, honest and wry, a devotee of Afghanistan's culture, Elliot strives to debunk the myth of "…

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Reisverhaal Notes from the Cevennes | Adam Thorpe

A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic. In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal, Notes from the Cévennes, Thorpe takes up these themes, writing about his surroundings, the village and his house at the heart of it, as well as the contrasts of city life in nearby Nîmes. In particular he is interested in how the past leaves impressions--marks--on our landscape and on us. What do we find in the grass, earth and stone beneath our feet and in the objects…

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Reisverhaal Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Travels in South Africa | Gavin Bell

Near the southern tip of Africa, there is a mountain that does a conjuring trick with the biggest tablecloth on earth. In a sacred forest near the Limpopo river, there is a bird that flies on wings of thunder, flashing lightning from its eyes and bearing rain in its beak. In between, there is a hauntingly beautiful land and millions of confused people. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu dubbed his native South Africa the 'Rainbow Nation', he conjured a vision of ethnic diversity and harmony in a country with eleven official languages, two national anthems, and a parliament that shuttled between two cities. As a foreign correspondent reporting on the last days of apartheid, Gavin Bell thought it was a brave image and wondered how long it would endure. A few years later, he returned to find out what had happened to Tutu's rainbow. In his travels he found a country at odds with itself, swinging between hope and despair, buoyed by a sense of freedom and haunted by a fear of violent crime. SOMEW…

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Reisverhaal Yemen - Travels in Dictionary Land | Mackintosh-Smith

Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia. For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden 'precisely the most repulsive corner of the world'. Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Ru…

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Reisverhaal Mani - Travels in the Southern Peloponnessos | Patrick Leigh Fermor

Mani is het meest afgelegen, meest geïsoleerde en wildste gebied van Griekenland. Van de rest van het land afgesneden door de torenhoge bergketen van de Taygetos en ingeklemd tussen de Egeïsche en Ionische Zee, is deze rotsgie centrale uitloper van de Peloponnesus het zuidelijkste punt van mediterraan Europa. Tussen Kaap Matapan, het antieke Tenaron, en de kust van Afrika liggen alleen nog een paar verspreide eilanden. Dicht bij de laatste kaap ligt de grot die naar Hades leidt. Deze bergen waren volgens de bewoners het toevluchtsoord van hun voorouders, de Spartanen, toen er aan hun hegemonie achter de Taygetos een einde werd gemaakt. Het is een gebied vol peilloze afgronden, desolaat en ondoordringbaar, en de paar reizigers die zich er hebben gewaagd, wijzen steeds op een overeenkomst tussen de grillige rotsen en de mensen die er wonen. Mani is het verslag van het verblijf van Patrick Leigh Fermor in deze ruige streek, waarin hij op onnavolgbare wijze het heden en het verleden bij e…

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Reisverhaal Walking the Great North Line | Robert Twigger

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hope…

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