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In 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, and stone walls. 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.
The 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!’
Originally published in two separate volumes, Connemara Mollie and Dingle Peggy, this brand new edition brings
the whole story together for the first time, with new photographs and material.

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