More and more people undertook walking tours through the 19th-century, of which the most famous is probably Robert Louis Stevenson’s journey through the CĂ©vennes in France with a donkey, recorded in his Travels with a Donkey (1879). Stevenson also published in 1876 his famous essay “Walking Tours”. The subgenre of travel writing produced many classics in the subsequent 20th-century.
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