Traveling with a donkey also provided a fair amount of comic relief for the reader, although I’m sure it was massive frustration for him as a traveler! It actually became a very influential book in the genre of travel writing. This was one of his early works, but he already had the power of description and fun storytelling, so it is an enjoyable recount of his travels. If you have read some of his other books, like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, or his book of children’s poems, A Child’s Garden of Verses, you know he is a wonderful writer and storyteller. Repeated blows seemed not to influence her until he learned to use the magical word “Proot” to get her moving. At first he loathed her for her intractable differences of opinion displayed concerning the rate of travel to be maintained. Modestine, the donkey, demanded that her owner exercise all his ingenuity. One morning after a night’s sleep out of doors Stevenson scattered coins along the road upon the turf in payment for his night’s lodging. He traveled as his fancy led him, stopping to sleep whenever occasion offered. His only companion was Modestine, a donkey. In twelve days, from September 22, 1878, until October 3, 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson walked from Le Monastier to St. He wrote of his adventures in his book Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes. He took with him a companion - a donkey he named Modestine. It was a hiking journey of approximately 120 miles through the Cévennes Mountains of France, but it was not a solo hike. When Robert Louis Stevenson was in his late 20’s, he set out on a journey that he hoped would provide material for writing a book.

Travels with my donkey in the cevennes