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Riding Across Patagonia

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Author : Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press
Release Date : 2001-08-01

Riding Across Patagonia written by Florence Dixie and has been published by Long Riders Guild Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-01 with Travel categories.

When asked in 1879 why she wanted to travel to such an outlandish place as Patagonia, the author replied without hesitation that she was taking to the saddle in order to flee from the strict confines of polite Victorian society. Palled with civilization and its surroundings, I wanted to escape to some place where I might be as far removed from them as possible. A longing grows up within one to taste a more vigorous emotion than that afforded by the monotonous round of society s so-called pleasures, Dixie wrote. Riding Across Patagonia tells the story of how the aristocrat successfully traded the perils of a London parlor for the wind-borne freedom of a wild Patagonian bronco. Her equestrian exploits became legendary. One of the first Europeans to ride Criollo horses, on one occasion Lady Dixie escaped from a rampaging prairie fire by riding directly through the flames! Long considered a classic of equestrian travel, Lady Dixie s book is illustrated with pen and ink drawings that show her mounted entourage during the course of their remarkable adventures.

Across Patagonia

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Author : Lady Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880

Across Patagonia written by Lady Florence Dixie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) categories.

Across Patagonia

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Author : Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-02-26

Across Patagonia written by Florence Dixie and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-26 with Fiction categories.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Across Patagonia

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Author : Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-12

Across Patagonia written by Florence Dixie and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with categories.

Weary of her life in English society, during 1878-1879 Dixie travelled with her husband, two of her brothers and Julius Beerbohm in Patagonia in South America. There, she hunted big game and ate it with gusto. On one occasion, while riding on the prairie, her party was overtaken by a huge prairie fire, and her horse bolted with her. On her return to England, Dixie wrote her book Across Patagonia, which discussed Dixie's observations of the country and its inhabitants. Lady Dixie also shared her observations of Patagonia with Charles Darwin. Lady Dixie sent Darwin a copy of Across Patagonia; Darwin's copy of this book is part of the Library of Charles Darwin located in the Rare Books Room of Cambridge University Library. A hotel at Puerto Natales in the Chilean part of Patagonia is named the Hotel Lady Florence Dixie in her honour.

Across Patagonia

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Author : Lady Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2017-03-10

Across Patagonia written by Lady Florence Dixie and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-10 with Fiction categories.

These, and similar questions and exclamations I heard from the lips of my friends and acquaintances, when I told them of my intended trip to Patagonia, the land of the Giants, the land of the fabled Golden City of Manoa. What was the attraction in going to an outlandish place so many miles away? The answer to the question was contained in its own words. Precisely because it was an outlandish place and so far away, I chose it. Palled for the moment with civilisation and its surroundings, I wanted to escape somewhere, where I might be as far removed from them as possible. Many of my readers have doubtless felt the dissatisfaction with oneself, and everybody else, that comes over one at times in the midst of the pleasures of life; when one wearies of the shallow artificiality of modern existence; when what was once excitement has become so no longer, and a longing grows up within one to taste a more vigorous emotion than that afforded by the monotonous round of society's so-called -pleasures.-

Across Patagonia

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Author : Lady Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09

Across Patagonia written by Lady Florence Dixie and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...us, by allowing himself to be killed. But as we started into a gallop to meet him half-way, he changed his mind, and darted off sideways, our whole party following. The dogs unfortunately, as often happens when they are wanted, had fallen behind, and a depression in the plain hid us from their view. It seemed rather a forlorn chase, therefore, as our tired horses were no match for the ostrich, who drew away at every stride. To our surprise, however, he suddenly began to " double," and we 126 A GOOD RUN. saw that he was being hard pressed by one of Guillaume's dogs, from which he had evidently been escaping when he met us. With fresh zest we pushed forward, spreading out in a semicircle, so as to be able to turn the ostrich back to the dog should he double round our way. An exciting chase ensued. The dog, a clever brute, did its utmost to make the ostrich double towards us, but without success, and the speed at which they were both going prevented us from getting any nearer. The dog was tiring, but he held out stoutly, double after double slowly exhausting him. At last, overshooting himself in an attempt to stop short, he turned a complete somersault, and the ostrich, profiting by the moment's respite, literally set all sail and skimmed away, with a strong wind in his favour. " He is lost! " shouted Francisco, reining in. " No, no--the river, the river! " cried Gregorio, spurring the harder, and away we went after him, and right enough, there was the river glittering before us, with the ostrich not fifty yards from the bank, and, hurrah! our whole pack of dogs close on his heels. He must take the water, or he is ours. In another second he reaches the bank, and pauses. He is in! No--his heart has failed him, and with an ominous droop of his...

Across Patagonia

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Author : Lady Florence Dixie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

Across Patagonia written by Lady Florence Dixie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) categories.

Across Patagonia

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Author : Florence Caroline Dixie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

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Dark Horses At The Patagonian Frontier

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Author : Jon Burrough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Dark Horses At The Patagonian Frontier written by Jon Burrough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Nature categories.

Patagonia is one of the 'final frontiers' on our planet: remote, untamed and much of it inaccessible except on horseback. Though travelled before and sporadically settled, it remains remarkably resistant to human trampling. Divided unequally between Argentina and Chile, Patagonia remains a land of mystery today. The history of those who settled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along its Andean frontier is even less known. They are the 'dark horses' of this book.Jon Burrough rode with his gaucho guide for 1,500 kilometres through this land of savage beauty. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier evokes the rawness of the region using extracts from diaries, personal interviews, tales told or recorded, myths and legends--all wound round the narrative thread. Part travel record of a 'third-ager' on horseback (who was to discover he had cancer ten days out) and part history of this truly wild region, the book explores the landscapes and legacy of a pioneer culture. Illustrated with the author's own photographs, it also contains several detailed route and location maps to ensure the reader does not get lost. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier is a tale both of the author's epic journey and of the remarkable pioneers he met and who showed him a hospitality and friendliness which seemed to have no limit.

Riding Into The Heart Of Patagonia

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Author : Nancy Pfeiffer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-03

Riding Into The Heart Of Patagonia written by Nancy Pfeiffer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Horsemanship categories.

Originally from the Denver suburbs, the author later moved to Palmer, Alaska, where she began to take horseback riding lessons. As a novice horsewoman, Nancy Pfeiffer took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Over the next two decades and three thousand kilometers of rugged horse trail, the hospitable people who live there took her in, and Patagonia slipped silently into her soul.