Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: (Robert Louis Stevenson Classics Collection) - Robert Louis Stevenson - Books - Createspace - 9781508616672 - February 24, 2015
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: (Robert Louis Stevenson Classics Collection)

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: (Robert Louis Stevenson Classics Collection)

Publisher Marketing: It was already hard upon October before I was ready to set forth, and at the high altitudes over which my road lay there was no Indian summer to be looked for. I was determined, if not to camp out, at least to have the means of camping out in my possession; for there is nothing more harassing to an easy mind than the necessity of reaching shelter by dusk, and the hospitality of a village inn is not always to be reckoned sure by those who trudge on foot. A tent, above all for a solitary traveller, is troublesome to pitch, and troublesome to strike again; and even on the march it forms a conspicuous feature in your baggage. A sleeping-sack, on the other hand, is always ready-you have only to get into it; it serves a double purpose-a bed by night, a portmanteau by day; and it does not advertise your intention of camping out to every curious passer-by. This is a huge point. If a camp is not secret, it is but a troubled resting-place; you become a public character; the convivial rustic visits your bedside after an early supper; and you must sleep with one eye open, and be up before the day. I decided on a sleeping-sack; and after repeated visits to Le Puy, and a deal of high living for myself and my advisers, a sleeping-sack was designed, constructed, and triumphantly brought home. Contributor Bio:  Louis Stevenson, Robert Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 24, 2015
ISBN13 9781508616672
Publishers Createspace
Pages 76
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   113 g

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