About the Book: Urban Poverty In India
This book, considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature, recounts
Stevensons 12-day, 200 kilometres solo hiking journey through the sparsely
populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central
France in 1878. Largely focusing on Stevensons humorous descriptions of his
stubborn travel companion, Modestine the donkey, it tells of commissioning one
of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry.
Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of
someone traveling in his fashion. It also narrates Stevensons visits to the
monastery Lady of the Snows where a country parish priest