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Title: Across Patagonia ... With illustrations from sketches by J.
Beerbohm, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
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Dixie, Florence Caroline Douglas.; Beerbohm, Julius; 1880 xiii. 251
p.; 8 . 10481.e.2.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
When asked in 1879 why she wanted to travel to such an outlandish
place as Patagonia, the author replied without hesitation that she
was taking to the saddle in order to flee from the strict confines
of polite Victorian society. Palled with civilization and its
surroundings, I wanted to escape to some place where I might be as
far removed from them as possible. A longing grows up within one to
taste a more vigorous emotion than that afforded by the monotonous
round of society s so-called pleasures, Dixie wrote. Riding Across
Patagonia tells the story of how the aristocrat successfully traded
the perils of a London parlor for the wind-borne freedom of a wild
Patagonian bronco. Her equestrian exploits became legendary. One of
the first Europeans to ride Criollo horses, on one occasion Lady
Dixie escaped from a rampaging prairie fire by riding directly
through the flames Long considered a classic of equestrian travel,
Lady Dixie s book is illustrated with pen and ink drawings that
show her mounted entourage during the course of their remarkable
adventures.
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