In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman.
His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey.
Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again - this time crossing the Atlantic and the breadth of America in the hop.
Penguin Books Ltd Travels with a donkey in the cevennes and the amateur emigra, paperback/robert louis stevenson
