Man & Horse
The Long Ride Across America
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John Egenes
"One of those rare and splendid books that stay with you long after you finish the last page.” —Bill Bryson, author of A Walk in the Woods
In the spring of 1974, twenty-three-year-old John Egenes set out from Ventura, California, on a Quarter Horse named Gizmo he'd raised himself. He had $100, a beat-up cavalry saddle, and a dream of crossing the country—a dream he’d been harboring since his boyhood in a broken home.
Over the next seven months, man and horse traveled through eleven states, trekking across America’s deserts, mountains, prairies, and small towns. They navigated by worn U.S. Geological Survey maps and dead reckoning, slept in graveyards and abandoned shacks, drank from (and bathed in) cattle tanks, and shared what little food they had (including the occasional Snickers bar for Gizmo)--enduring lightning storms, belligerent drunks, elk herds, and even a black widow bite.
Part-travelogue, part spiritual quest, Man & Horse is a memoir of rare authenticity, humor, and candor. As he trots along at a horse's pace, slowing down to take in his surroundings, Egenes reckons with the widening chasm between the analog America of the 1970s and the reality on hyperdrive we live in now, reminding us of what’s truly worth holding onto.
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Critic reviews
“Man & Horse is one of those rare and splendid books that stay with you long after you finish the last page.” —Bill Bryson, author of A Walk in the Woods
"Man & Horse is hands down one of America’s best road books. At the story's heart is one of literature’s great friendships—between an introspective young man and an extraordinary horse. This rough-hewn yet elegant, one-of-a-kind memoir will make you want to throw a few choice belongings in a bag and set out to explore this vast country of ours, albeit at a slower pace. I would follow John and Gizmo anywhere." —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of American Rambler
"Idiosyncratic and sublime. An epic trot that reads like a gallop, across a country that seems almost mythical in the rearview mirror of half a century. Egenes's story is shorn of easy sentiment and leaves you instead with unshakeable visions: of black-widow delirium, glass shards in the hoof, and barbecued rabbit slathered in Velveeta. I can think of no book quite like it." —Ben McGrath, author of The Riverman
"Man & Horse is hands down one of America’s best road books. At the story's heart is one of literature’s great friendships—between an introspective young man and an extraordinary horse. This rough-hewn yet elegant, one-of-a-kind memoir will make you want to throw a few choice belongings in a bag and set out to explore this vast country of ours, albeit at a slower pace. I would follow John and Gizmo anywhere." —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of American Rambler
"Idiosyncratic and sublime. An epic trot that reads like a gallop, across a country that seems almost mythical in the rearview mirror of half a century. Egenes's story is shorn of easy sentiment and leaves you instead with unshakeable visions: of black-widow delirium, glass shards in the hoof, and barbecued rabbit slathered in Velveeta. I can think of no book quite like it." —Ben McGrath, author of The Riverman
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