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The Long Ride: The Record-Setting Journey by Horse Across the American Landscape by Lucian Spataro (Hardback, 2011)

IPPY 2012 Outstanding Books of the Year, Most Likely to Save the Planet Award
Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoirs
A vivid, sweeping, passionate story about a modern-day adventure, this is a beautiful chrology of Lucian Spataro and his team s record-setting Arabian horse ride across the United States to draw attention to the destruction of the world s rainforests. Told with wit and eloquence, the story moves from the beaches and crowded streets of Los Angeles, across Death Valley and the Painted Desert, through hundreds of towns and cities in the Midwest, before ending on the East Coast in an effort to bring an eye to environmental issues that in 1989 had visibility or advocate in the United States. The urgency and importance of Spataro s mission remains today as 20 years later the situation has t improved. Like the original ride itself, this book serves as both a report from the environmental front line and a fresh call to action.

Spine
24mm
Introduction by
Bazy Tankersley
Content Note
Colour Illustrations, Maps
Author Biography
Lucian Spataro, Jr., PhD, is an environmentalist, a businessman, an educator, and an adventurer. He is the former director of the Program on Sustainable Development at the University of Arizona s International College and was a pioneer for sustainability in the Arizona-Sonora region. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Jane Goodall, PhD, is a preeminent conservationist and the world s foremost expert on chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Bazy Tankersley is breeder of Arabian horses and the founder and owner of Al-Marah Arabians. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Foreword by
Dr Jane Goodall
Date of Publication
01/10/2011
Country of Publication
United States

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