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News! Summer 2009
Long Riders’ Guild Launches World’s Toughest
Equipment Test Cure found for Deadly African Disease which
kills Long Rider Horses,
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At Freedom's Door, by Malcolm Darling, tells the noteworthy tale of how the author set off to ride 1,400 miles across India on the eve of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. This was an India, still smiling, but eager for freedom. Thanks to his tolerance and insight, Darling was able to describe far more than the dusty plains, great rivers and mighty mountains which the average traveller would have noted. Instead Rajput and Sikhs confided in him, while Muslims and Hindus provided him with shelter and secrets. Using his horse as the key to each village, Darling noted the size of the fields, as well as the fear of the future. Read more.... |
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| Also available is Equus - The Natural History of the Horse, the most important equestrian wisdom book written in the first half of the 19th century. An English soldier turned scientist, Charles Hamilton Smith, consulted, translated and transcribed every type of original texts, including works in Greek, Latin, Arabic and many Oriental sources. The result was a book which became the principal authority of its age. No topic was off-limits. An early genetic examination of curly haired horses in Columbia was presented. Eyewitnesses were interviewed who had seen wild sultan-stallions attacking predators in Central Asia. Yet the mounted author’s most astonishing accomplishment was the careful documentation of more than a hundred ancient and extinct breeds, including the Katschenstzi of Tartary, a shining black horse with a white mane and the Sardinian wild horse, an indigenous animal not imported by man. Read more... |
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Winter 2008
The Long Riders' Guild News Archive - thousands of articles about Long Riders are now available for the first time in history. The basis of this extraordinary collection was begun more than fifty years ago by North American Long Rider and Founding Member of The Guild, Pat Schamber.
A BBC-TV programme has been broadcast about Long Rider Robert (Don Roberto) Cunninghame Graham. He was the author of travel books, a biography, eleven histories of Latin America and fourteen volumes of short stories and sketches. Click here for more information about the show.
Historical Long Rider "Two-Gun Nan" Aspinwall has been nominated for the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
Several expeditions completed, and new ones planned.
We would like to welcome the following new Members to The Long Riders' Guild: Jeff Foster, SuSan Small Hammer, Mick Thompson and Rocky Woolman, and Associate Members Elaine Lockwood and Gary Ziegler. They can all be found on the appropriate Members pages.
The Long Riders' Guild Press has republished two more books by Aimé Tschiffely - the enchanting "Little Princess Turtle Dove," written for children, and "Round and about Spain." The latter proves once and for all that there was more, much more, to the famous Long Rider than his ride from Buenos Aires to Washington. Soon after the end of the Second World War Aimé accepted an invitation to explore Spain. The resulting book was published only two years before his death.
Part II of Whisper on the Wind, the amazing story of Tom Bass, has been published in Horse Connection magazine!
Over on the LRGAF website you will find the results of a fascinating scientific study in Britain, published in The Daily Telegraph, which proves that horses can recognise individual neighs and match them to faces.
Long Rider Laurence Bougault has published an excellent book about stallions, "Chevaux Entiers et Étalons."
More than a year after completing his epic journey from Mongolia to Hungary, Long Rider Tim Cope has been reunited with his faithful dog, Tigon.
Long Rider Rosie Swayle Pope has completed her solo run around the world!
New Long Rider Art.
Summer 2008
Thanks to The Guild’s international network of contacts, the most notorious living equestrian travel outlaw is prevented from riding his horses to death!
In response to tremendous demand, The Guild has decided to provide Long Riders' Guild T-shirts.
More pictures for the “Shadows and Ears” page!
CuChullaine O'Reilly is interviewed on the Stall-13 radio show regarding the work of the LRG, the LRGAF and the books in the Horse Travel Books collection. This programme will be repeated on the Internet until 24th August and can be heard from all over the world.
New articles about Long Riders in magazines and on the Internet.
The Long Riders' Guild is proud to announce the discovery of the two hundredth Historical Long Rider. Arthur Kavanagh rode from Russia to India, even though he was born without arms or legs!
New: links to Disabled Riding and Driving Programmes.
New books by and about Long Riders.
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