{"product_id":"a-connemara-journey","title":"A Connemara Journey","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravel writer Hilary Bradt's journey on horseback through western Ireland - County Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick - combining Connemara Mollie and Dingle Peggy in a single volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHilary Bradt's classic account of a journey through Ireland on horseback in the 1980s published for the first time in a single volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. The book is also a portrait of a vanished rural Ireland before the Celtic Tiger era, built up from descriptions and conversations with local people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe journey takes Bradt and her ponies a thousand miles south from county Mayo, around the peninsulas of Kerry and Cork, and inland towards Waterford. ‘I've never tried hitchhiking with a horse before,' comments the author, faced with the challenge of getting across the River Shannon. ‘It's not easy!' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in two separate volumes, \u003ci\u003eConnemara Mollie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDingle Peggy\u003c\/i\u003e, this brand new edition brings the whole story together for the first time, with additional, previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48827567866013,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/connemarajourney.jpg?v=1787350231","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/a-connemara-journey","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}