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“a wayward, inconsequential journey and a strange love affair (with a donkey)”
“a wayward, inconsequential journey and a strange love affair (with a donkey)”
Robert McCrum picks Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes as one of the 100 best nonfiction books
\#Scottish #FrancoScottish #literature for #BastilleDay 🇫🇷🏴 \#RobertLouisStevenson @bookstodon 1/3 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/06/r-l-stevenson-travels-with-a-donkey-in-the-cevennes-nonfiction-review-mccrum
Many Worlds: David Lindsay and Alternative Realities
Many Worlds: David Lindsay and Alternative Realities
‘Colin Wilson overstated the case when he called A Voyage to Arcturus “the greatest novel of the twentieth century”; but its cult status is undeniable.’
Stuart Kelly looks at David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920), and examines a tradition of alternate realities in Scottish fiction going back to Walter Scott & REDGAUNTLET
\#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #SciFi #SciFiFri
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/many-worlds-david-lindsay-and-alternative-realities/