The Long Riders' Guild For Equestrian Explorers

The Long Riders' Guild, is the first international association of equestrian explorers and long distance travellers who have ridden at least one thousand continuous miles. The Guild was started to promote equestrian travel all over the world. We already have more than a hundred members who live in a total of 24 countries, and between them they have ridden on every continent except Antarctica.

Here are a few examples of our Members and their journeys:

Louis Brunkhe (American) and Vladimir Fissenko (Russian) rode 18,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska
Adnan Azzam (Syrian) rode from Madrid to Mecca
Jean-Louis Gouraud (French) rode from Paris to Moscow
George Patterson (Scottish) rode across Tibet in 1946 and helped rescue the Dalai Lama from the advancing Chinese.
Manfred Schultz (German) has just finished an epic around-the-world trip with his horses.
Sharon Muir Watson and her husband, Ken Roberts (Australian), the first people to ride the 5,000 kilometre Bicentennial National Trail Down Under.
Eduard Chautard (New Caledonian), the first person to ride the perimeter of that island.
Nathan (Canadian) and Elly (Swedish) Foote, who rode from Patagonia to Alaska.

And here are a few examples of some of our Members who are out travelling at this moment:

Laura Bougault (French) is currently riding across Africa.
Howard Saether (Norwegian) and his wife Janja Kovacic (Slovenian) are riding from Uruguay to Texas.
Guenter Wamser and Barbara Kohmanns (German) are riding from Patagonia to Alaska.
Eduardo Discoli (Argentinean) is travelling from Buenos Aires to New York.
Mary Pagnamenta (British) is riding up both islands of New Zealand.

Our website (www.thelongridersguild.com) has more information about equestrian travel than has ever been gathered together in human history. The thirst for this information has now spread to France and Germany: we have sister websites in French (www.worldtrailrides.com) and German (www.weitreitergilde.de).

Now we have set up the world's first publishing company to specialise in classic equestrian travel books. Our first sixty titles (including "Tschiffely's Ride") are now available in three languages under the imprint of The Long Riders' Guild Press. These are "print on demand" books, which means that never again will they go out of print! By the end of 2003 we hope to be able to offer every equestrian travel book that has ever been published, in every language - we think there are 400-500 of them.

The Long Riders' Guild is trying to locate more Long Riders, to document their journeys and to encourage future equestrian expeditions. They would like to hear from you!

www.thelongridersguild.com
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