Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

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. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves; and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent.

He is accompanied by a donkey, Modestine, who carried his luggage, and whose characterisation as a stubborn, independent-minded travelling companion is a memorable feature of the book.