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The critical need for a standardized Horse Travel Journal was recognized by the Founding Members of The Long Riders' Guild. All of these mounted travellers shared stories about their assorted unsuccessful efforts to maintain a written record of their equestrian adventures. Though various literary avenues had been tried, no one had devised a book specifically designed to record the equestrian occurrences encountered during these long and often perilous journeys. Thus was born the need and desire to publish a book intended to register the most important comments and observations of the world's Long Riders. It has been designed to fit into a standard saddle bag. Every daily diary entry in The H...
The critical need for a standardized Horse Travel Journal was recognized by the Founding Members of The Long Riders' Guild. All of these mounted travellers shared stories about their assorted unsuccessful efforts to maintain a written record of their equestrian adventures. Though various literary avenues had been tried, no one had devised a book specifically designed to record the equestrian occurrences encountered during these long and often perilous journeys. Thus was born the need and desire to publish a book intended to register the most important comments and observations of the world's Long Riders. It has been designed to fit into a standard saddle bag. Every daily diary entry in The H...
For thousands of years we have travelled on horseback but until now no one has shown us the way.The Horse Travel Handbook, a field guide drawn from its parent edition The Encyclopaedia of Equestrian Exploration, is the most authoritative work of its kind and contains the hard-earned wisdom gained by hundreds of Long Riders during centuries of equestrian travel. The concise, easy-to-use volume covers every aspect needed to successfully complete a journey by horse, including how to organize the trip, plan a route, choose the proper equipment and purchase horses. Traditional challenges such as loading a pack saddle, avoiding dangerous animals, fording rivers and outwitting horse thieves are cov...
No one knew they were looking at a hero and his two horses. Instead the local press derided him as "a lunatic proposing to ride overland to New York." The time was 1925. The place, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Standing on the threshold of equestrian travel history was a young Swiss Long Rider named Aime Tschiffely. Next to him were his two faithful Criollo horses, Mancha and Gato. Their collective goal was to ride more than ten thousand miles from Buenos Aires to New York. No one had ever attempted such a journey. Everyone thought Tschiffely was mad. Looking back on what would become the most famous equestrian journey of the modern age, it is difficult to believe that anyone doubted the abilitie...
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The history of the world was shaped to a large extent by men on horseback who, because of the animals under them, were able to travel great distances at great speed. This fascinating book is the result of years of research in the fields of history, ethnology, archaeology and the study of the horse. The author had access to records in the Magyar language (Hungarian) which were beyond the reach of most Western European researches. A must-read for all who want to learn more about the early days of horsemanship.
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 transportation. The result was the loss of humanity's collective equestrian travel wisdom. A treasure trove representing more than 6,000 years of cumulative human-horse travel experience was lost in less than 100 years due to global apathy. Thus as t...