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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, with additions by Laurence Phillips |
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 Robert Louis Stevenson may have travelled with a donkey, but Laurence Phillips has added dogs and dodgy hips to the equation in a new slant on classic travel literature that reprints Stevenson’s original book and couples it with his own up-to-date guidebook.
Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson – with an eat-and-sleep guide for modern travellers by Laurence Phillips, is published by Illyria Books to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the first publication (£7.99).
Stevenson’s route is now a nationally recognised and preserved ramblers trail, but there are still no international chain hotels in Lozère. You can enjoy the same views as Stevenson and even eat at the same tables. Laurence’s companion section reviews dozens of places to eat and stay, whether travelling with a hired donkey, walking the dogs, or even exploring in a wheelchair.
‘Some villages on the trail have a resident physiotherapist, should the walking start to take its toll,’ reveals Laurence. ‘For short break visitors or reluctant hikers, the book even includes a range of cheating options – hop on a school bus to save a day’s trek here and there, or perhaps drive between hamlets.’
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"For habitual travellers to Greece the Peloponnese also offers something of a time machine. Fifteen or twenty years you could still see old men going to their fields on donkey back, old women clad in black preparing vegetables on their doorsteps, main roads blocked by flocks of goats, olives being picked with no more aid than a triangular wooden ladder and a big stick, tractors made from converted lawnmowers, and village shops seemingly unchanged since the 1940s. In the Peloponnese you still can."
Andrew Bostock, Greece: The Peloponnese, (Bradt).
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