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An illustrated talk and Q&A: Hilary Bradt in conversation with Jane Badger – 28 April 2021

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At 6pm on 28 April 2021, join writer and founder of Bradt Guides, Hilary Bradt, in conversation with Jane Badger to discuss her classic account of a journey through Ireland on horseback in the 1980s.

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Join writer and founder of Bradt Guides, Hilary Bradt, in conversation with author/publisher Jane Badger to discuss Hilary’s classic account of a journey through Ireland on horseback, nearly 40 years ago.

Starting at 6pm on 28 April, the event will begin with a short photo slideshow of the highlights of Hilary’s ride, followed by an interview with Jane and concluding with a live audience Q and A.

The Connemara story

Inspired by one of her childhood pony books, in 1984, Hilary Bradt achieved her long-held ambition to undertake a long-distance ride. Using her experience of horsepacking in Peru, with saddlebags imported from America, she and her pony, Mollie, set forth in Ireland’s County Galway with no decent maps and only a vague idea of a route.

They faced many challenges and obstacles together, including impassable rivers, bogs, stone walls and travelling alone for the first time for decades. The second part of the journey, with Peggy, concluded the thousand mile journey near Limerick, having travelled most of the western coast and the inland hills.

Some obstacles seemed insurmountable: “I’ve never tried hitchhiking with a horse before,” says Hilary at one point, faced with the broad River Shannon estuary. “It’s not easy!”

Hilary’s accounts of her journey, which combines descriptions of the people and landscape of long-ago Ireland with a growing appreciation of the debt she owes those two ponies, are being republished for the first time in a single volume, A Connemara Journey.

Jane Badger has compiled the world’s largest website on equine literature:

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Hilary Bradt in conversation with Jane Badger: Wednesday 28 April 6pm via Zoom. Buy this product to receive registration details.

Tickets are redeemable against a copy of A Connemara Journey