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  • Great Walks

    DONKEY BUSINESS

    Jan 30, 2019 3 minutes

    Travels recounts Stevenson’s 12-day, 200km solo walk through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France. He often compares the terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, to parts of Scotland. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. It is one of the earliest accounts to present bushwalking and camping as a recreational activity.

    The book also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough

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