Poetry Books by Robert Cunninghame-graham
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published Date: 1967
Categories: Nature
A history of the Quarter Horse in England and America, describing the most famous animals and breeders, and the emergence of the American Quarter Horse Association
Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press
Published Date: 2004-12
Categories: Travel
The author was uniquely qualified to pen such an important equestrian tale. Born in 1852 to a aristocratic Scottish family, Cunninghame Graham spent his youth working as a gaucho in Argentina, before becoming an outspoken Member of Parliament in London. A lifelong horseman, Don Roberto was also one of the first European writers to defend the rights of native peoples. archives, thereby discovering manuscripts which had lain unread for centuries. The result was a book written, Don Roberto says, out of gratitude to the horses who shaped history. Amply illustrated with drawings of period horses, their riders and various pieces of equestrian equipment, The Horses of the Conquest remains one of the most important equestrian books ever published.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Science
R. B. Cunninghame Graham's trek into the Moroccan interior beyond Marrakesh is a classic example of British adventure travel. His ostensible purpose was to reach the forbidden city of Tarudant, where it was claimed no Christian had ever set foot, and which he attempted while variously disguised as a Turkish doctor and a sheikh from Fez. In the end, Cunninghame Graham's mission was a failure: halfway to his goal, he was captured and held prisoner for four months in the medieval castle of Kintafi in the Atlas Mountains. But his loss was the reader's gain, as Edward Garnet points out in his introduction, for "the episode of this enforced detention in [a] strange semi-Arcadian, semi-feudalistic scene, while the traveller watches day after day the panorama of Berber life...is unique in the literature of travel." Part history, part social commentary as only the British wrote it, Cunninghame Graham's account of his travels makes fascinating reading nearly a century later.
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Published Date: 2011
Categories: Fiction
"The Cunninghame Graham collection"--Cover.
Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press
Published Date: 2004-12
Categories: Travel
Cunninghame Graham was called the modern Don Quixote because of his unorthodox and mercurial life. Born to an aristocratic Scottish family in 1852, Don Roberto's life was astonishingly varied. Argentine gaucho, Texas frontiersman, London politician, Moroccan explorer. He was all that and more. 1936. ever set to paper, collected during the roaming life of this talented horse-borne scribe. from the hot pampas of Argentina to the cold reaches of Iceland. The book culminates with Don Roberto's most famous equestrian tale, Tschiffely's Ride.
