Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Patrick Wallace
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey, it is also an exploration of peasant life in an area marked by the violence of the wars of religion. This version includes the fragment "A mountain town in France", originally intended as the opening chapter, but often omitted and published as a separate essay. (Summary by Patrick Wallace) (3 hr 57 min)
Chapters
A Mountain Town in France | 23:27 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Donkey, the Pack and the Pack-Saddle | 12:59 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Green Donkey-Driver | 17:56 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
I Have a Goad | 12:07 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
A Camp in the Dark | 20:02 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Cheylard and Luc | 7:59 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Father Apollinaris | 9:49 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Monks | 14:18 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Boarders | 11:48 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Across the Goulet | 7:12 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
A Night Among the Pines | 10:54 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Across the Lozère | 11:21 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Pont de Montvert | 13:05 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
In the Valley of the Tarn | 19:48 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Florac | 5:36 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
In the Valley of the Mimente | 8:49 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Heart of the Country | 15:15 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
The Last Day | 11:06 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Farewell Modestine! | 3:56 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
brilliantly read.interesting travelogue,well worth listening to.
js.harbison1215@gmail.com
One of my favorite books ever! The reader is excellent. Once I attempted to retrace Stevenson’s adventure. Things have changed a lot, but it’s possible. I couldn’t find a donkey, but I had a knapsack and a sleeping bag.
not bad
David W
the reader is great but the book itself is a bit lacking in adventure and pacing that most of his works show so much of.
Delightful book. Superb reader.
Anna
Very much enjoyed this excellent reading of RLS.
Harry Lime
too poetic in nature to go anywhere