Connemara journey
Bradt, Hilary2021
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Total copies: 1
In 1984, Hilary Bradt achieved an ambition from her pony-mad childhood to undertake a long-distance ride. This warm, funny and heart-wrenching account centres on the growing bond between the author and her Connemara ponies, Mollie and Peggy. Using her experience of horsepacking in Peru with saddlebags imported from America, she and Mollie set forth with no decent maps, and only a vague idea of the route. The many challenges and obstacles they face include impassable rivers, bogs, stone walls, and the author's own shyness. It is also a portrait of a vanished rural Ireland before the Celtic Tiger era, built up from descriptions and conversations with local people. The journey takes Bradt and her ponies a thousand miles south from county Mayo, around the peninsulas of Kerry and Cork, and inland towards Waterford.
Main title:
Connemara journey / Hilary Bradt.
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Imprint:
UK : Bradt Travel Guides Ltd, 2021.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Contents: Connemara Mollie -- Dingle Peggy.
ISBN:
9781784778255 (pbk)1784778257 (pbk)
Dewey class:
798.2309 BRA798.2309
LC class:
SF309.28
Language:
English
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BRN:
383443