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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Gelesen von Patrick Wallace

(4,661 Sterne; 59 Bewertungen)

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

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The Donkey, the Pack and the Pack-Saddle

12:59

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The Green Donkey-Driver

17:56

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I Have a Goad

12:07

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A Camp in the Dark

20:02

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Cheylard and Luc

7:59

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Father Apollinaris

9:49

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The Monks

14:18

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The Boarders

11:48

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Across the Goulet

7:12

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A Night Among the Pines

10:54

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Across the Lozère

11:21

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Pont de Montvert

13:05

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In the Valley of the Tarn

19:48

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Florac

5:36

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In the Valley of the Mimente

8:49

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The Heart of the Country

15:15

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The Last Day

11:06

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Farewell Modestine!

3:56

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Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

brilliantly read.interesting travelogue,well worth listening to.

(5 Sterne)

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

(3 Sterne)

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.

(5 Sterne)

Very much enjoyed this excellent reading of RLS.

(3 Sterne)

too poetic in nature to go anywhere