Purchase
Trafalgar Square Books
May 2013
On Sale: May 1, 2013
252 pages
ISBN: 1570765782
EAN: 9781570765780
Kindle: B00CGNNNP8
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Biography
In this remarkable one-year journal, skilled horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her world, where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons, with beauty and sometimes danger. While riding in places as far-reaching as Mexico, Australia, and India, Chester is always grateful to come home to the comforts of her familiar horse. As they cover the borderland of Arizona and the hills of Massachusetts, we get to know Barranca as intimate companion, mediator between soul and nature, whether entering the wilds of Cochise Stronghold or picking Berkshire apples from the saddle. Carried along on waves of memory, released by the gaits of her smooth-moving fox trotter, this literary memoir takes us on a personal exploration as wellβwhere family relationships are fractured by anger, jealousy, illness, and death. With the help of her big-hearted animal, Chester is able to retrieve the past and find forgiveness. For as she says ββRiding Barranca puts me in the moment, which is where I want to live.β
| 
© 2003-2026