Title: Summer of the Horse
Author: Donna Kane
Published: 5777
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 18 MB
Subjects: horses,literary,memoir,British Columbia,Donna Kane,Muskwa-Kechika Management Area,Horsemen and horsewomen,human-animal relationships,trail riding,packhorse camping
What do you do when you decide you no longer want to be responsible for anyone but yourself? When faced with that moment, Donna Kane leaves her twenty-five-year marriage for life with a conservationist and wilderness guide who is so certain of the path he is on that she thinks she's just along for the ride.
A few days before Kane's new husband leaves for a three-month horse-pack expedition, a gelding is seriously injured, and she agrees to stay behind to tend the horse's wound. In the quiet moments spent with the horse each day, she reflects on her transition into the new relationship, the wilderness of the unknown, and her struggles with personal autonomy and independence.
A deft writer, Kane takes readers on her inaugural trail ride into the stunning Muskwa-Kechika protected area, known as the "Serengeti of the North." She rides with a pack string of horses over mountain passes, into boreal forests, along swamps and sand flats, crossing creeks and fast-flowing...
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