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As with AN INLAND VOYAGE, included is a frontispiece by Walter Crane. For this trip the forlorn Stevenson found solace with another female - Modestine the donkey. Stevenson took this trip just after the woman he loved (and eventually would marry) left the Continent with her two children to rejoin her husband in San Francisco. This was Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES like the former two, this is something of a travelogue, describing his 1878 walking tour in the CĂ©vennes region of southern France. First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 750 copies. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled.
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