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| | Breakaway Adventures - Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson's Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23) |
 | | In the autumn of 1878, the Scots writer Robert Louis Stevenson, author of 'Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped', set out from Le Monastier in the Auvergne to walk south across the Cevennes accompanied by "a small grey donkey called Modestine, the colour of a mouse with a kindly eye". |
 | | Stevenson should have put the Cevennes "on the map", but despite his account of his travels through this beautiful region, it remains little known. |
 | | Whilst the Cevennes always provide fairly rugged terrain, and the walk does cross two significant mountains, Mont du Goulet (1,497m) and Mont Lozere (1,699m), the walk itself is not unduly demanding. |
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