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Two friends do the donkey work in the footsteps of a master

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060717
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Writer Robert Louis Stevenson did his walk with a donkey through rural France in 12 days, but Hilary Macaskill and Molly Wood made the trip last four years. Sheena Hastings reports.

IN 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson and his donkey Modestine spent 12 days walking in the Cevennes mountains in the southern Massif Central area of France. He recounted his adventures in Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes.

Stevenson was lovelorn. His lover Fanny had gone back to America to seek a divorce from her husband, and he did not know if he would see her again. He needed to make some money, and following the ...

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