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

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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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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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 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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