Southern Cross to Pole Star : Tschiffely's ride : 10,000 miles in the saddle from Argentina to Washington D.C
Tschiffely, Aime, 1895-19542014
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Aime Tschiffely had an unlikely dream: to ride 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York City. In April 1925 he set out on his epic journey with two native Argentine horses called Mancha and Gato. The trio traversed the Pampas, scaled the Andes and struggled through the crocodile-infested rivers of Colombia and the jungles of Panama. After two harrowing years, the man who had originally been labelled 'mad' by the press was accorded a ticker-tape parade when he rode triumphantly through the streets of New York.
Main title:
Author:
Tschiffely, Aime, 1895-1954, author
Edition:
[New] edition.
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2014.
Collation:
xxii, 407 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: London: William Heinemann, 1933.Map on lining papers.
ISBN:
9781781857205 (hbk)1781857202
Dewey class:
917'.04915917.04915
Local class:
917.0491917
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
612868
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