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It seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. Go to Russia, befriend the Cossacks, buy a stallion and then trot him more than 2, 500 miles back to England. Of course the Soviet Union had just collapsed and no one had ever been allowed to ride out of that communist empire. But such minor obstacles didn't deter the author of this singular book."Bandits and Bureaucrats" unfolds in 1995 when unstable political conditions allowed Basha O'Reilly t...

Het Handboek, ontleend aan de oudereditie The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration, is het meest gezaghebbende werk in zijn soort en bevat de zuurverdiende wijsheid die honderden Long Riders hebben opgedaan gedurende eeuwen van paardensportreizen. Dit beknopte, gebruiksvriendelijke boek behandelt elk aspect dat nodig is om een reis te paard tot een goed einde te brengen, inclusief het organiseren van de reis, het plannen van een route, het ...

Volume Three For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way. The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration is the most extensive study of equestrian travel ever created. The three-volume series offers every conceivable type of advice about equestrian travel such as how to plan a route, how to choose a travelling companion, how to find a road horse, how to load a pack saddle, how many miles to trav...

For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way. The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration is the most extensive study of equestrian travel ever created. The three-volume series offers every conceivable type of advice about equestrian travel such as how to plan a route, how to choose a travelling companion, how to find a road horse, how to load a pack saddle, how many miles to travel per day, h...

For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way.The three-volume Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration is the most extensive study of equestrian travel ever created.Former generations of horse travellers took the basis of their equestrian knowledge for granted. For centuries they passed on wisdom in an oral tradition, never foreseeing the day when horses would be replaced as the primary mode of...

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What does the world's most famous equestrian explorer do when he comes home to England after making a 10, 000 mile ride from Argentina to Washington, DC? He writes a best-selling book about his adventures, "Tschiffely's Ride", then sets off on a new horse to explore rural 1930s Britain. Through the ancient New Forest, over the lonely mountains of Wales, and across the rugged landscape of Scotland, the renowned author investigated the nooks and...

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The author was a nurse in Bulgaria during 1878, caring for the wounded of the war between Russia and Turkey. While there, she saw for herself the plight of lepers, and decided to make a 2000-mile journey to the leper colonies of Yakutsk in the depths of Siberia. She hoped to find a herb which was said to grow there and which was allegedly a cure for leprosy. Although originally she set out to improve the lot of the lepers of India, she ended u...

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This is the story of Robin and Louella Hanbury-Tenison's exploration of New Zealand on horseback in 1988. They rode alone together through what they describe as 'some of the most dramatic and exciting country we have ever seen.' For two or thee days at a time, Robin and Louella would map read their way by compass across some of the largest farms in the world, at one moment crossing snowy passes of over 6, 000 feet, at the next baking in the dr...