Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

This video focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1879 book, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, an account of a 12-day, 120-mile walking tour he undertook the previous autumn through this mountainous region of south-central France.

There are many editions of this work available; mine, however, was published by Northwestern University and has a scholarly introduction but no notes (if anyone wishes to recommend a better edition, that would be much appreciated).

This video is the second one concerning my summer reading plans, full details of which you can watch here:    • Summer Reading Plans! Poetry, Adventu...  

There's also a Summer 2024 playlist for all these videos.

The obscure words:

spencer - a short jacket
vaticination - prophesy, prediction
hypothec - an affair, a concern
glebe - land, fields arch.
shako - a conical military hat
phalanstery - a group of people living together, holding property in common
grig - a grasshopper/cricket or small eel

Note: Yes, I know, the donkey in the picture has five legs; I would still wager that such a donkey could shuffle faster and be more compliant than Modestine, so I decided to leave it there as a joke.

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