The result is a romantic, funny classic of travel literature that Billy Hartman’s soft Edinburgh accent suits very well. His 120-mile journey took him a dozen days, much of it spent cursing and goading the recalcitrant Modestine. To carry it he acquired Modestine, a ‘she-ass not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw a faint resemblance to a lady of my acquaintance’. Like all novice travellers, he took too much with him, stuffed into a sheepskin-lined sleeping bag of his own design. ‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go’, he says in his opening chapter. So in that year he set off for his next foray – touring the mountainous Cévennes region in the Midi, sleeping under the stars and wandering at will.
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