Stevenson's charming account of a solitary walking tour through the Cévennes with a stubborn donkey. A classic of travel writing.
Books mentioned in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (5)
Pastors of the Desert by Napoléon Peyrat: “…blindfold in the opaque night; and I had felt no other inconvenience, except when my feet encountered the lantern or the second volume of Peyrat's Pastors of the Desert among the mixed contents of my sleeping-bag; nay, more, I had felt not a touch of cold, and awakened with unusually lightsome…”
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: “a crucifix, a bust of the late Pope, the Imitation in French, a book of religious meditations, and the Life of Elizabeth Seton”
Waverley Novels by Walter Scott: “He showed me his own room, where he passed his time among breviaries, Hebrew Bibles, and the Waverley Novels.”
Life of Elizabeth Seton: “It was clean and whitewashed, and furnished with strict necessaries, a crucifix, a bust of the late Pope, the Imitation in French, a book of religious meditations, and the Life of Elizabeth Seton, evangelist, it would appear, of North America and of New England in particular.”
La Bête du Gévaudan by Elie Berthet: “M. Elie Berthet has made him the hero of a novel, which I have read, and do not wish to read again.”
Books that mention Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “indescribable quiet talk of the runnel over the stones. --ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, _Travels with a Donkey_.”