Description:
A slender but influential masterpiece of early travel writing, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ranks on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Includes an extensive biographical timeline.
Brief description: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. His other works include Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Review Quotes:
"One of the most purely enjoyable books ever written." -Bill Bryson
"The essence of all travel writing, it's all about discovery, not just of landscape and beauty but of self." -Paul Theroux
"I have never read any of his books with greater pleasure than Travels with a Donkey." -Henry James
"It has a peculiar charm of its own, and one which is all its author's. If any man can do justice to a donkey, surely it is he." -Virginia Woolf