Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lu par Patrick Wallace
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey, it is also an exploration of peasant life in an area marked by the violence of the wars of religion. This version includes the fragment "A mountain town in France", originally intended as the opening chapter, but often omitted and published as a separate essay. (Summary by Patrick Wallace) (3 hr 57 min)
Chapitres
| A Mountain Town in France | 23:27 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Donkey, the Pack and the Pack-Saddle | 12:59 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Green Donkey-Driver | 17:56 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| I Have a Goad | 12:07 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| A Camp in the Dark | 20:02 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Cheylard and Luc | 7:59 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Father Apollinaris | 9:49 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Monks | 14:18 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Boarders | 11:48 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Across the Goulet | 7:12 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| A Night Among the Pines | 10:54 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Across the Lozère | 11:21 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Pont de Montvert | 13:05 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| In the Valley of the Tarn | 19:48 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Florac | 5:36 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| In the Valley of the Mimente | 8:49 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Heart of the Country | 15:15 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| The Last Day | 11:06 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
| Farewell Modestine! | 3:56 | Lu par Patrick Wallace |
Critiques
A LibriVox Listener
brilliantly read.interesting travelogue,well worth listening to.
js.harbison1215@gmail.com
One of my favorite books ever! The reader is excellent. Once I attempted to retrace Stevenson’s adventure. Things have changed a lot, but it’s possible. I couldn’t find a donkey, but I had a knapsack and a sleeping bag.
word painting
christopher melo
RLS had incredible talent at painting vivid mental image with words. This version was beautifully narrated with musical inflection that render it a joy to hear.
not bad
David W
the reader is great but the book itself is a bit lacking in adventure and pacing that most of his works show so much of.
Delightful book. Superb reader.
Anna
Very much enjoyed this excellent reading of RLS.
A LibriVox Listener
The voice is measured, and pleasant to my octogenarian ear.
Harry Lime
too poetic in nature to go anywhere