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Click
on picture to read how Count Rzewuski of Poland rode to Arabia in
search of the fabled horses of the Hijaz in 1817. |
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Click on the picture to read about the fantastic
exploit of Cossack Mikhail Asseyev, who rode from Kiev to Paris (1,646 miles) in
33 days at an average of more than 50 miles a day - and arrived with his horses
in better condition than when they set off!
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Click on the picture to read CuChullaine
O'Reilly's "In Search of Equestrian Freedom", the story
behind the founding of The Long Riders' Guild. |
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Click
on picture to read the hair-raising story of Harry de Windt's winter
crossing of Persia in 1891. |
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Click on picture to read an amusing episode
during Verne Albright's amazing ride with two Peruvian Pasos. |
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Click
on picture to read an amusing description of the Burmese pony who
accompanied George Younghusband to Siam in 1887. |
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Tex Cashner rode from Ohio to Texas -
back in 1951! Click on the photograph to read his previously-unpublished
tale of triumph and tragedy. |
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Click on the picture to read the amazing
tale of one of the youngest people ever to become a Long Rider. |
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Click on picture to find out how Joe
Goodwin became the only Long Rider in the 20th century to survive a gunfight
with Mexican bandits. |
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British Long Rider Stephen McCutcheon is
attempting an historic equestrian journey, a 10,000 kilometre ride from Delhi,
India, to Beijing, China! No one has undertaken a journey in this area
and of this magnitude since 1905, when the English Long Rider,
Major Clarence Dalrymple Bruce, rode from Srinagar, Kashmir, to Peking, a trip of shorter
duration. Modern-day equestrian explorer McCutcheon is now trying to
make equestrian travel history by blazing a new path from the heart of the
Indian sub-continent to the capital of the Chinese people. McCutcheon is
already the first person since the Partition of 1947 to have ridden across
India and Pakistan together. Having now reached the western deserts of
China, the intrepid British Long Rider was attempting to ride through the
notorious Pamir mountains when he was nearly killed in a brawling mountain
torrent. Having barely survived that danger, McCutcheon's expedition
has been stopped, he has been arrested because of a lack of proper
paperwork, and this magnificent journey is now in jeopardy. Click on
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Click on picture to read an extract from
"The Land of the Blessed Virgin - Impressions of Andalusia" in which
Somerset Maugham recounted
his ride from Sevilla to Carmona and back. This accurate account captured
the look and feel of a country before the onset of a deadly civil war and
industrialization changed it forever. |
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Vyv Wood-Gee
and her daughter, Elsa, rode the full length of Britain, from John O'Groats
to Lands End. To read Vyv's story, please click on picture. |
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In May
2007 Nicholas
Ducret
left for the trails of Central Asia, intending to cross Central Asia from
Kazakhstan to Afghanistan. After five months travelling,
he
reached Kabul at the end of the month of October.
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Click on picture to read the
memories of someone who met Long Rider Messanie Wilkins as she rode from
Maine to California in the 1950s. |
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Click on picture to read 11-year-old Bronte
Broome's story of her family's ride along the Tasmanian Trail. |
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Click on photograph to read about Roger Dunnam's narrow
escape from death on the trail. |
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Click on picture to discover how Ana Beker,
South America's most famous female Long Rider, rode from Argentina to
Canada. |
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Click on photograph to read Evelyn
Coquet's heart-rending story about her horse's mysterious sickness during
her astonishing ride from Paris to Jerusalem. |
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Click on picture to read Kate Marsden's
account of the horrors of travelling in Siberia in the 1890s. |
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Honesty, Humility, Courage and Compassion
English Long Rider Grant Nicolle rode his horse, Marv, along the historic
trail that stretches from John O’Groats in Scotland, across England, to
Land’s End in Cornwall. Grant recounts the first week of his journey, which
ranged from being nervous about setting off to rescuing his horse from
quicksand. |
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Penny Turner has sent us a lovely description of her recent Long Ride in Greece
with her trusty horse George. Click on photograph to read about her
experiences,
and some words of wisdom for anyone thinking of following in
her hoofprints. |
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When Filipe Masetti Leite was a child,
his father, Luis, read Tschiffely’s Ride as a bedtime story to the
impressionable little boy. Originally from Brazil, the family had resettled
in Canada, where Filipe grew up and attended university. After obtaining a
degree in journalism, Filipe faced a difficult choice. Should he get a
job, marry his girlfriend and settle down to the type of predictable life
which his friends had chosen? Or should he consider undertaking the
equestrian journey which his father had longed to make but had been unable
to attempt due to family obligations? |
