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Travels With a Donkey
Travels With a Donkey | Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. The story is set in the wild region of the Cevennes in France. It's a real travelogue, in which Stevenson embarked to find the necessary funding that allowed him to start his writing career. His only companion was a stubborn donkey named Modestine. This literary work from the reader a glimpse into the character of Stevenson: here the journalistic style and writing comedy is in contrast to other works of the same ....
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BookishMe
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Sarah83
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My next #folio arrived yesterday. 🤗 The only thing that drives me mad is, that the seller put a label on the slipcase... How can someone do something like that to books? 😪😪😪 Hope the next books don't look like that. The book itself is gorgeous. 😍 #foliofreaks

tricours Did the label damage the cover? 7y
Sarah83 @tricours the slipcase is ok, but it's still cobble, where the label was placed. 😪 I used the hairdryer to remove the label, but I didn't get a good result 7y
Wilkie That‘s so annoying! 7y
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Sarah83 @Wilkie even if it was cheap, it is still annoying 7y
Jess_Read_This Such a bummer! Why do sellers do that? I bought a Folio Wodehouse and the seller put the label on the spine!!! It still has gummy sticky bits I can‘t fully get off. I haven‘t been brave enough to try a chemical removal. (edited) 7y
Sarah83 @Jess_Read_This I don't want to use chemical either. I think sellers don't see books like we do. For them books are "things"... 7y
Jess_Read_This @Sarah83 You are probably right, a lot of sellers treat them like a commodity with no respect. I know of one seller who is a collector/booklover who showed me that she lightly cleans some of the soiled covers with a paper towel dampened with Windex. I don‘t think that will work on my sticky sticker residue situation though. 7y
Sarah83 @Jess_Read_This so sorry to hear that. 😪 7y
Jess_Read_This @Sarah83 Lol... it‘s like playing book roulette with some of these sellers hoping to get a copy minus stickers! 7y
Sarah83 @Jess_Read_This you are so right. 😎 7y
quirkyreader I hope you enjoy this edition. I have it as well. 7y
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LeahBergen That's beautiful! 7y
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GFB
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"In a little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant highland valley fifteen miles from Le Puy, I spent about a month of fine days." More so than other genre, I think, the opening sentence of a travelogue tells you so much of the journey ahead. #travelogue #pasodelmulo

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GoneFishing
Travels with a Donkey in the Cvennes | Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.