It’s always endearing to come across a travel classic revived with a re-imagined cover design. And it becomes all the more charming when it is handpicked by Ruskin Bond. This travel classic was penned by Robert Louis Stevenson, famous author of bestsellers like Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The memoir narrates Stevenson’s journey on foot across the Cévennes, a mountainous region of south-central France, in 1878. What sets it apart is that the book is as much about the journey as the author’s love-hate affair with his idiosyncratic travel partner, a donkey named Modestine. A travel book for the ages, its witty take on a peculiar journey that features dangerous forests, beautiful panoramas and intriguing characters warrants a re-read by commoners and hikers alike.