![]() Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was a young and relatively unknown writer in 1878, when he undertook his 12-day journey through the Cévennes region of France. So the sleeping bag served a triple purpose: bed at night, luggage by day, and camouflage against nosy parkers. The logic behind the sleeping bag was this: Stevenson complained that if local people could tell he was on a camping trip, they'd drop in on his campsite at all hours of the night, and wake him up to talk. Whether the sheep were originally blue, or dye was involved, is not recorded. It was also lined with blue 'sheep's fur' 1. This might account for the fact that his sleeping bag was six feet square, roomy but bulky. We would like to point out that RLS was a writer, not a product designer. Robert Louis Stevenson invented the first sleeping bag known to modern travel literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like, 'if your sleeping bag is too big to carry, why not take a donkey along?' – Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey.ĭo you enjoy travel books? Do you like camping? It's quite a grand old tradition, reading about travel, and you can pick up some good tips, too. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world – all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. ![]()
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