Much in 'Travels with a Donkey' is familiar to long-distance walkers of today. With its overland journey from Mull to Edinburgh, the cave on Ben Alder, the troublesome crossing of Rannoch Moor, the hike out through the Braes of Balquidder, it ought in itself to count as hillwalking literature – apart from the awkward fact of being written by a non-hillwalker.
'Kidnapped', considered for a century or so as a book for boys, is in the current millennium taking its place among the top Scottish novels. From childhood onwards he was permanently unwell, with what was diagnosed at the time as tuberculosis.Īnd so he became an adventurer in spirit only, and in the world of the imagination. Born into a family of famous lighthouse engineers, RLS had the leisure, and the temperament, to become an outdoor adventurer. Robert Louis Stevenson was the greatest Scottish hillwalker to never walk up any hills.
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