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Within these covers rest the accounts of a rare breed of men and women. Here are the mounted dare-devils who rode hell-bent for leather through raging fires sweeping the plains around them. Here are the mounted mystics seeking inner enlightenment via that altar of travel, the saddle. They are all here in this illustrated first volume of an amazing new series dedicated to preserving and sharing the mounted adventures of the world's most importa...

One of the geographic legends of the early twentieth century was the Abyssinian kingdom of Emperor Haile Selassie. Existing in self-imposed isolation, this medieval world was an adventurer's paradise when Thomas Lambie arrived in 1919. A missionary and physician, Lambie was in addition a first class horseman with a hunger for excitement. Eventually Lambie was called to ride through the mountainous countryside to visit one of the local kings, H...

Few books deserve the endorsement "forgotten gem." Yet "California Coast Trails" is entitled to that accolade and more! An English immigrant, Smeaton Chase (1864-1923) came to California in 1890 where he pursued a career as one of the state's earliest social workers. Yet he never allowed his career to interfere with the life-long pursuit of his twin passions, equestrian travel and botany. Though Chase made many various horse trips throughout t...

Tex O'Reilly should not have lived long enough to tell this tale! He had, after all, been shot at by tribesmen, mercenaries and jealous husbands for nearly forty years when he dictated his life story in the 1920s to famed journalist, Lowell Thomas. O'Reilly's colorful story began with the American Rough Riders. He fought beside Teddy Roosevelt and his Volunteers as they stormed San Juan hill in 1889. Yet that conflict only served as a finishin...

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Schweiz, Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal, Chile, Island, Schottland, Irland, Nordamerika, Karibik, Bolivien, Japan, Argentinien, Marokko, Neuseeland. Allein in der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österrich gibt es annähernd 500.000 Reitpferdebesitzer, und jeder fünfte begibt sich mit seinem Reittier auf kleinere oder grössere Urlaubsreisen. Der bekannte Wanderreiter Otto Schwarz berichtet in faszinierenden Reportagen und Bildern von seinen Reisen mit d...

Roger Pocock was an Englishman whose tales of wanderlust and equestrian adventure were nineteenth century travel classics. "Following the Frontier" is considered his best work describing as it does his early adventures in North America. Although the autobiographical account reads like fiction, it is in fact only the first half of his remarkable life. Pocock begins his tale by explaining how he came to join the Canadian Mounties in 1885. When t...

Few people, let alone women, have made as many unconventional journeys in the twentieth century as Christina Dodwell has. She travelled alone through Africa, Papua New Guinea, China, Eastern Turkey and Iran, Kamchatka and Madagascar. She travelled on horseback, by camel, dugout canoe, by horse-cart, bicycle, by microlight and by driving reindeer and dogs. She shared meals with witchdoctors, pygmies and hermits, was attacked by would-be rapists...

She was a legend, and now she is forgotten. She risked her life to bring back tales about exotic places, and now those tales lie lost. She rode horses in wild countries, while the majority of her fellow English women were content to reside at home. Her name was Isabella Bird and she was one of the greatest equestrian travelers of all time. Alas, this fickle world has laid aside her wonderful story for too long. No one could have foreseen the a...

There is only one adequate way to describe this book. When you hold it you feel the waves of time running through your fingers. Bronze age O'Raghallaigh warriors whisper to you. Medieval monks in their Cavan monastery share their manuscripts with you. Elizabeth O'Reilly cavaliers peek over your shoulder. You are no longer alone, for here in your hand is a key to all the previously forgotten secrets of this lost and lonely clan.It was famed Iri...

It was 1937 and few places on Earth were more remote than Afghanistan. Into this hermit kingdom went Ernest Fox. Technically searching for oil and gemstones for the Afghan king, the American engineer discovered a countryside unchanged since the days of Marco Polo. For a year Fox rode a series of local horses through the mountains, valleys, and deserts of this forbidden realm, visiting such fabled places as the medieval city of Herat, the tower...

He was a giant in his day, in terms of physical strength and literary fame. Captain Frederick Burnaby not only stood over most men in the flesh, he towered over them when it came to cold courage. A case in point was his decision to explore Russia on horseback in 1875, a country which had just been declared off-limits to all foreigners by the Czar. That didn't intimidate Burnaby. A famous swordsmen and notable linguist, the author set off deter...

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Considered one of the finest travel accounts of its era, "Adventures in Mexico" describes the equestrian exploits of its famous author, George Ruxton, a young British army officer who rode from the port of Vera Cruz to the fabled walls of Santa Fe, Mexico in 1847. It is a true tale of rough adventure filled with detailed descriptions of Indians, Mexicans, and Americans. When the English horseman met famed Mexican General Santa Ana, for example...

There is an old saying among the equestrian journeyers of Central Asia that a unique occasion will produce a special man. When such a rare occasion arose in 1905 for a courageous horseman to ride from Kashmir to Peking, Major Clarence Bruce stepped into the saddle and cantered into Long Rider history. As the 20th century dawned this soldier turned author found himself on the wrong side of the Himalayas. Bruce had previously led a regiment of C...

This is one of the most captivating books in modern equestrian literature. It is poetry, set to the sound of a horse's gentle clip-clop. It is a tale of the gradual uncovering of the secrets of back country Britain. "Eye on the Hill" is much more than just a recollection of this noted traveller's thousand mile journey around England, Wales and Scotland. Barnes is possessed with the critical eye of the travelling poet. He sees the England he lo...

No-one who wasn't mad as a hatter would try to take a horse across the Andes by one of the highest passes between Chile and the Argentine. That was what John Ure was told on his way to take up his diplomatic posting with the British Embassy in Santiago in the early 1970s. Disregarding the sceptics, the author prepared to ride across the hazardous mountains by studying accounts of those who had travelled in earlier centuries. An excellent examp...

Prepare for a equestrian surprise. If you think this book is another one of those tired 19th century tales about a heroic white man making his way through a tract of nameless jungle - then think again. For herein lies the tale of the most unlikely horse hero of that bygone era. According to his own pen, young British Subaltern George Younghusband was, "sick of the pomps and vanities of this civilized world of ours." Though stationed in colorfu...

It was wartime in England. London was being bombed by the Nazis. Coventry Cathedral was a smoke-filled ruin and a sense of desperation gripped the island kingdom. Yet even though the Second World War was raging all around him, the English country squire J. Wentworth Day decided the time was right for an extended horseback ride through his disaster-torn country! Setting off on his Thoroughbred, Robert, Day began the only wartime ride of its kin...

Es war eine besondere Zeit, eine kurze Zeit des Friedens im kriegsmüden Europa. Die dreißiger Jahre boten drei umherziehende Schweizer Reitern die Gelegenheit einer Reise durch einen, sich vom Krieg erholenden Kontinent, und die Möglichkeit, die letzten Überreste des dörflichen Lebens des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts zu erleben, bevor es endgültig von den Schrecken des zweiten Weltkrieges zerstört wurde. Hans Schwarz, der Autor dieses Reise-Tagebu...