One Man and a Mule by Hugh Thomson
In the Middle Ages, mules were used to transport goods across Britain. Strong, sturdy and able to carry a good 160 lbs of weight, they made ideal walking companions. Now, the author has revived that ancient tradition. In this book, he gives an account of his travels through Peru, Mexico, the Indian Himalaya, and southern England.[I]t marks rivers, county boundaries, towns and villages relevant to the story, and the route the author took from St Bees on the Irish Sea, the most westerly point of northern England, to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea. The remote, random, meandering nature of this hugely enjoyable peregrination could not have been better expressed… there is evocative writing of nature and landscape beyond the entertainment. -- Anthony Sattin * Observer *
A thoroughly readable and discursive ramble through visually stimulating and historically fascinating countryside… A perfect book to take on your next holiday * Country Life *
Terrific fun -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Thomson’s gently blokeish bonhomie is never less than diverting and his gently meandering account the ideal easy-going beach read * The Lady *
Thomson writes beguilingly * Daily Mail *
Like all travel books, it is a potpourri of journey log, historical notebook, social observation and agricultural and rural comment. Thomson writes wittily, his deep understanding of landscape and nature coupled with a powerful descriptive capacity and good ear for dialogue. * Country & Townhouse *
An enjoyable refuge from everyday life * The Times *
A wonderful witty and personal journey, this paints a vivid and beautiful picture of Britain and its history * NFU Countryside *
Companionable account of a coast-to-coast walk across England * Telegraph *
Hugh Thomson’s travel books include The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland and Cochineal Red, both about Peru, as well as Nanda Devi, a journey to a usually inaccessible part of the Himalaya. His memoir Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico was serialised by BBC Radio 4.
Hugh has led many research expeditions to Peru and is one of Britain's leading explorers of Inca settlements. He has also taken filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and the Mexican Sierra Madre.
‘Thomson belongs to a rare species of explorer. He is a writer who explores and not an explorer who writes. And it is Thomson’s extreme humility in the face of both danger and extraordinary success that places him in the same tradition as Eric Newby.’ Geographical.
For The Green Road into the Trees, he returned to Britain to write about his own country. It won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing.
For the sequel, One Man and a Mule, Hugh decided to have ‘a South American adventure in England’ by taking a mule as a pack animal across the North.
'Everywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell.' New York Times Book Review
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099592570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099592576 |
| Title | One Man and a Mule |
| Author | Hugh Thomson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2018-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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