6/30/2023 0 Comments Rl stevenson cevennes![]() ![]() ![]() After a month in Le-Monastier-sur-Gazeille, and equipped with a newly-bought donkey and an egg whisk, he set out to walk to Ste-Jean-du-Gard. ![]() In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson, a 27-year-old, unsuccessful, Scots writer with a single obscure travel book under his belt and the weight of family disapproval on his shoulders, left Paris, where he was living, for the Auvergne, to cure a broken heart. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off the feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints." "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. ![]()
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