STEVENSON, Robert Louis - Inland Voyage & Travels with a Donkey - (Hardcover)

Book still in a fairly good condition - Previous owner's name inside.   >>>    Stevenson is best remembered for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  - "We are travelers in the wilderness of the world-travelers with a donkey"  So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878.   Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cevennes.  Freedom was the important thing:  " I blessed God that I was free to wander, free to hope, and free to love."   This diary will find many kindred spirits.   In the summer of 1876, Robert Louis Stevenson made a trip by canoe from Antwerp through northern France.  Accompanying him was his friend Walter Simpson.  Written when he was twenty five and originally published in May of 1878,  Inland Voyage was Stevenson's first published work.  ( Goodreads)    >>>   An Inland Voyage is the story of the journey by canoe made by the author and his friend through Europe along rivers and canals, starting in Antwerp and later travelling down the Oise.   -   Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes tells of a twelve day solo trek: just the author and a donkey.  He says in the Dedication: "The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me.  After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end."               * Classic*