Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: and Other Travel Writings: and Other Travel Writings

Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and his first published works were travelogues. This collection presents his finest travel writing: An Inland Voyage, chronicling a canoe journey from Belgium to France; Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a humorous account of a mountain trek; and Forest Notes, a meditation on nature from an artists’ colony near Paris. AUTHOR: Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 1894) began his career as an essayist and travel writer, starting with the 1878 publication of An Inland Voyage and Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes. The author of captivating tales for readers of all ages, his classics include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.