Schateiland - Robert Louis Stevenson - ebook

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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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.

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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