Tschiffely's Ride

Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star

Aimé Tschiffely

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787204614
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

THE UNDISPUTED CLASSIC OF EQUINE ADVENTURE
In the early 1920s, a peaceful Swiss schoolteacher accomplished one of the most extraordinary equestrian journeys in history: Aimé Tschiffely and his two trusty steeds, Mancha and Gato, traveled the incredible distance of ten thousand miles between Buenos Aires and New York.
Tschiffely's Ride recounts the dramatic story of that daring journey. Along the trackless Pampas of Argentina, over Peru's towering Andes Mountains, through the malaria infested jungles of Central America, across the deserts of Mexico, and on to a rapturous welcome in faraway New York, Tschiffely carries the reader along on an unforgettable quest.
Although many taunted him as a fool for daring to make a ride that had never been attempted, the author was greeted as a hero by the president of the United States and given a ticker tape parade by the mayor of New York City. Nearly a century later, the modest Tschiffely is revered as the most influential Long Rider in history.
Tschiffely's journey has inspired five generations to swing into the saddle and seek their own equestrian adventure; his beloved book remains the most famous and enduring equestrian travel tale ever written.
"It is a fascinating personal narrative....Tschiffely has told a romantic and adventurous tale."—Kirkus Reviews
"A ride that beats all the great rides of fact and fiction clean out of the field."—The Times

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• FOREWORD
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• THE FIRST DAY
• TOWARDS ROSARIO
• THE ROLLING PAMPAS
• THE DESOLATION OF SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
• TUCUMAN, THE ARGENTINE EDEN
• ENTERING THE ANDES
• PREPARING FOR ROUGH MOUNTAIN TRAVEL
• THROUGH MIGHTY QUEBRADAS AND OVER WINDSWEPT MOUNTAINS TOWARDS THE
• BOLIVIAN BORDER
• INTO THE LAND OF THE QUICHUAS
• A LONG FORGOTTEN SPANISH GOLD TRAIL
• POTOSI, THE OLD MECCA OF GREEDY SPANISH CONQUISTADORES
• AMONG THE AYMARA INDIANS
• TOWARDS LAKE POPO
• OVER THE VAST AND BARREN BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO TOWARDS LA PAZ
• LA PAZ: THE HIDDEN CITY
• TITICACA, THE SACRED LAKE
• ON PERUVIAN SOIL
• TOWARDS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE MIGHTY INCAS
• GLORIOUS OLD CUZCO
• INTO THE HEART OF THE ANDES
• CIVILISATION AGAIN
• LANDSLIDES, A DETOUR AND A MOUNTAIN STORM
• A FAMOUS INDIAN MARKET-THE ROOF OF THE WORLD-DOWN TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
• LIMA, THE STATELY OLD CITY OF KINGS
• THE SANDY DESERTS OF THE PERUVIAN COAST
• THE HIGHLAND OF ECUADOR
• QUITO
• CROSSING THE LINE
• COLOMBIA
• A LONG AND EVENTFUL SIDE-TRIP TO BOGOTÁ
• THE GREAT SWAMP BARRIER
• MAGDALENA, THE RIVER OF MUD AND CROCODILES
• ADIÓS SOUTH AMERICA!
• MANCHA SUFFERS A SLIGHT ACCIDENT
• WESTWARD HO!
• INTO THE GREEN LABYRINTH
• AN UNMARKED BORDER IN THE MIDST OF JUNGLES
• CLIMBING UP TO THE “MIDDLE OF THE WORLD”
• CIVILISATION ONCE MORE
• SIDESTEPPING A REVOLUTION
• SAN SALVADOR
• GUATEMALA, THE LAND OF THE QUETZAL
• GUATEMALA CITY
• OLD GUATEMALA
• VOLCANIC REGIONS OF SINGULAR BEAUTY
• TOWARDS THE MEXICAN BORDER-A GLORIOUS VIEW-DESCENT INTO STEAMING TROPICAL LOWLAND
• THE LAND OF THE CHARROS
• A DIFFICULT STRETCH
• OLD TEHUANTEPEC
• OAXACA
• IN THE SIERRAS
• MEXICO CITY
• THE MEXICAN MESA
• OVER BARREN PLAINS TOWARDS THE RIO GRANDE
• TEXAS AT LAST-AND VICTORY!
• BUSY DAYS
• FAREWELL, U.S.-BACK TO THE PAMPAS
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER