Everyone has a dream. Bob Orrell's was to take a pair of fell ponies and travel around the Lake District along the old pack horse routes and drovers' trails of a bygone age. First he had to design and make a pack-saddle, and train two moody and reluctant ponies called Thor and Jewel. Then he set off on a 200 mile trek leaving doubts and worries far behind.
In this evocative and entertaining book, Bob Orrell tells of a wonderful adventure: full of fun and mishap and wild humour. Here is the real Lakeland, with its stories and legends of long ago that linger in the misty valleys...and the quiet partnership with Nature, alone in the high fells with two stubborn, but likeable, ponies.
'Humour, real life adventure...her is an excellent book which I can recommend without reservations' The Bookshelf
In this evocative and entertaining book, Bob Orrell tells of a wonderful adventure: full of fun and mishap and wild humour. Here is the real Lakeland, with its stories and legends of long ago that linger in the misty valleys...and the quiet partnership with Nature, alone in the high fells with two stubborn, but likeable, ponies.
'Humour, real life adventure...her is an excellent book which I can recommend without reservations' The Bookshelf
