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Indlæser... Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)af Robert Louis Stevenson
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The title gives you a pretty good idea of what goes on in the book. If it was called Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes While Hating Catholics, it would give you an even better idea. I picked it up because the first chapter/essay in [b:Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer|992809|Footsteps Adventures of a Romantic Biographer|Richard Holmes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403183687l/992809._SY75_.jpg|978304] is about Stevenson's adventure and I thought that it would be fun to read the original before I read the response. It was fun! This is a short, briskly-paced account of a kind of leisure travel which was quite new at the time. It's clearly written and Stevenson isn't afraid to laugh at himself, so there is some humour to be had. The religious/political bits are short and easily bearable. If you can get through the animal mistreatment toward the beginning, it's a rewarding light read. ( ) Allegedly one of the very first hiking travelogues, Stevenson’s book is a pleasant account of a twelve-day trip in his late twenties over a mountain range in southern France, accompanied only by a jenny to help with carrying his gear. Maybe a wee bit too prolix towards the end about local history at the cost of his own experiences. > Robert-Louis Stevenson Voyage avec un âne à travers les Cévennes. Préface d’André Chamson. Traduction de Gilbert Lhomme. Aubenas, Racines d’Oc, 1973, 196 p. Se reporter au compte rendu de Philippe PIGELET In: Ethnologie française, nouvelle serie, T. 4, No. 4 (1974), p. 404… ; (en ligne), URL : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsfuwQaYhm_bGxLL9U3HTitbx4TeIfyZ/view?usp=shari... ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cévennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still popular today; recently when asked why the Scotsman still informs the identity of the Cevennes, a politician and historian of the area remarked "Because he showed us the landscape that makes us who we are." No library descriptions found. |
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