This entertaining description of a five weeks’ horse riding tour in South Westland, leaves an excellent impression of the character of the country and much information about the kindly disposition of the local people. Author A. Maud Moreland describes the stunning scenery and encounters with local flora and fauna, providing an immersive experience that will leave readers yearning to visit this breathtaking corner of the world.
Excerpt:
This is the story of a ride — of a five weeks’ wandering in the Back-blocks of a land still in the making — a land whose conditions, even to-day, are often primitive. Properly speaking, there is no story — only impressions, gathered in those wanderings: things I saw, things I heard, in isolated settlements, where the men and women, living face to face with Nature, seem to show a readier kindness; where the robuster virtues still thrive, and the heart of the race is young.
Looking back now from under English skies, surrounded by sights and sounds of an English summer, it seems very far away: a land apart — a people who belong almost to another world.
340 page paperback, A5 size