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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789386702661 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
914.4 |
| Item number |
STE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Travels with a donkey in the cevennes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Speaking Tiger, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi: |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
95 p. |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price type code |
INR |
| Price amount |
250.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of both cold climates and social orthodoxy. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties and pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging and charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour and humanity, poetry and perspicacity, ebullience and intelligence. And his timeless exhortation continues to inspire all true travellers: "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Description and travel |
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Literary History |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Travel Writing |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |