![]() ![]() The author wrote several of his most known novels during that time. Stevenson battled tuberculosis most of his life, however it was contracting malaria in California in 1880, a short time before his marriage to Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, that almost killed him. The author enjoyed sleeping outdoors and designed a “green waterproof cart-cloth without and blue sheep’s fur within”, better known as the sleeping bag. ![]() The latter book he writes about traveling through France with his stubborn donkey Modestine. Stevenson started his career as a travel writer with such works as An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, published in 18, respectively. Later he would use the surname Balfour for the protagonist of his 1886 novel, Kidnapped.
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