Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and from Silk Road imports

and from Silk Road imports to Edo-style textile patterns

study wind directions and reflections in the sky

" declares French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in one of the aphorisms that introduces this 1825 masterpiece on the subject of cooking as an art and eating as a pleasure

and anyone drawn to the idea of an agrarian lifestyle

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and from Silk Road importsTemperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest writing in that vein, starting with "An Inland Voyage." This 1878 chronicle of a canoe journey through Belgium and France charmingly captures the European