Robert Louis Stevenson 
Travels With a Donkey 

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.The story is set in the wild region of the Cevennes in France. It’s a real travelogue, in which Stevenson embarked to find the necessary funding that allowed him to start his writing career. His only companion was a stubborn donkey named Modestine. This literary work from the reader a glimpse into the character of Stevenson: here the journalistic style and writing comedy is in contrast to other works of the same ….