travels with a donkey in the cevennes quotes

The Camisards War was long over when Stevenson arrived, yet its grim and bloody memory was kept alive by the folk of the region. Pont de Montvert | PHOTO BY GEOTERRANAUTE ON FLICKR (modified) I am only a humble reader desiring nothing more than to share my reading experience with my fellow lovers of books and of reading.

Also, this piece is not in any way a literary critique, nor did I write this with the intention of being such. To minimize the ridicule, damage, and hurt I might incur when, by one miracle or another, people who are actually learned and skilled on these matters, chance to discover my little – and lowly – blog, in particular this overview and review, please know that I am no literary critic, nor do I flatter myself to be one. The overview is simply a brief summary of the book, while the review is largely an account of my experience with book. Similar to what I did with Roughing It and The Mountains of California, I obtained my copy of Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes in EPUB format from Project Gutenberg, a vast online repository of thousands of mostly older books and literary works, all in digital and electronic formats, all available for free for anyone to access, download, and read.Īnd similar to how I wrote the two preceding book overviews and reviews, this book overview and review is divided into two parts, the overview and the review.

It is in this context that I’ve decided to go for his Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, hoping that I would find it even more entertaining than his fictional novel about fell pirates and faraway treasure. Photograph | IMAGE BY HENRY WALTER BARNETT ON WIKIMEDIA COMMONSīut apart from Treasure Island, I’ve read no other work of his. Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry Walter Barnett, 1893. I already knew something about Stevenson, having been introduced to his literature upon reading, a few years ago, Treasure Island, a tale of ‘buccaneers and buried gold’, which I thought was a rather entertaining piece (I will read it again soon, and maybe write an overview and review of it). It was written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), a renowned Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist. In fact, I was immensely delighted by Muir’s writing that I seriously considered immediately reading another book of his and making it the topic of my third book overview and review.īut then I thought that there are so many other books to read, and so many more authors whose literary craft I have yet to discover (or maybe, re-discover), so that in the end, I decided Muir will have to wait.Īfter a bit of exploratory work on Google, I chose Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes as the third book I would read AND then write an overview and review on. Thus far, I’ve written overviews and reviews for two books, Roughing It by Mark Twain and The Mountains of California by John Muir, two books which I’ve had a pleasurable and enjoyable experience reading, especially the latter.

Travels with a donkey in the cevennes quotes