Table of Contents

Map: Stevenson's route in 1878; Robert Louis Stevenson; Travels With a Donkey in The Cevennes; By Robert Louis Stevenson; In the Footsteps of RLS by Laurence Phillips; Introduction; The Stevenson Trail Today; Getting There & Around; Flying; By Train; Crossing the Channel. Driving There; Car Hire; On Foot; By Bike or Horse; Maps; Travelling with a Donkey; Public Transport; Disabled Travellers; The Route; Transport; Planning a trip; Accommodation; The Stevenson Trail by Car; Accommodation; Hotels; Chambres d'Hotes; Self-catering and Gites d'Etapes; Camping; Restaurants; Diversions, Digressions and Detours; Useful Contacts; Stevenson Trail; Tourist Offices; Emergencies & Health; Pharmacies; Physiotherapists; Map: The GR70: The Stevenson Trail today.

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) is best known as the Scottish author of Treasure Island (1883) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). In 1879, he published Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, his account of a 12-day September hike in 1878 through the heart of France. Stevenson undertook the journey as much to explore the raw countryside shaped by nature, history and the passions of religion, as to forget the heartache the return of his beloved Fanny Osbourne to her native United States. Years later, Fanny & Robert were to be re-united and eventually married. Stevenson's Cevennes journey inspired the GR70 national footpath. Laurence Phillips is an award winning author, lyricist and travelwriter. He has written many guidebooks to France. The Bradt Guide to Lille and his guide to Eurostar cities were both been voted Guidebook of the Year. A popular classroom poet, his latest collection of children's verses Poetry is Boring is published in 2009. His words have travelled further afield, lyrics for the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Shakespeare Revue being performed from the West End to the South Pacific.

Reviews

"Bursting with life to this day" - New York Times "What a thing it is to be young, to be super-refined, to load a donkey with all one's belongings. This is the last whim of exquisite youth." - Fraser's Magazine "A classic. Delightful. Resolutely off the tourist map." The Sunday Times"