WILD HORSES OF THE SUMMER SUN – A Memoir of Iceland

Inbunden bok. –– FÖRLAGSNY! –– Pegasus Books. 2019. 336 sidor.

Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. –– FÖRLAGSNY! – 336 + 16 pages of color photographs. – Se fler bilder! ––

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virgina Woolf

Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while.
• When they first came to Thingeryar, these women were strangers to one another. The only thing they had in common was their passion for Icelandic horses. However, over the years, their relationships with each other deepens, growing older together and keeping each other young. Combining the self-discovery Eat, Pray, Love, the sense of place of Under the Tuscan Sun, and the danger of Wild, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun revels in Tory's quest for the "wild" inside her.
• These women leave behind the usual troubles at home: affairs, sick parents, troubled teenagers, financial worries-and embrace their desire for adventure. Buoyed by their friendships with each other and their growing attachments and bonds with the otherworldly horses they ride, the warmth of Tingeryar's midnight sun carries these women through the rest of the year's trials and travails.
• Filled with adventure and fresh humor, as well as an incredible portrait of Iceland and its remarkable equines, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun will enthrall and delight not just horse lovers, but those of us who yearn for a little more wild in everyday life.

"En annorlunda reseskildring. – Boken handlar om några amerikanska kvinnor som åker till Island varje sommar för att rida. Från början känner dem inte varandra men blir nära vänner. Resan ger de möjlighet att för en vecka fly från vardagens plikter och enformighet. Det är en underbar reseskildring om Island och om ridningen men också om kvinnlig vänskap, relationen till åldrande föräldrar och struliga tonåringar. Även om man inte är intresserad av ridning är boken mycket läsvärd. Jag kan verkligen rekommendera boken till alla."

"The pleasure of travel to new places is always enhanced by an inward journey. Tory Bilski's "Wild Horses of the Summer Sun," is a tale of both, travel to an exotic and then uncommon destination as well as the subtext of what she shares about her personal life, concerns universal to us all. Her narrative is about her many journeys to Iceland to ride horses. While she falls for the sport, the country's unique landscape and weather, she forges long-term relationships with other women also there to ride horses. Their ponies carry them through fields, along trails and the coast of Northern Iceland, and near fjords and glaciers. They ride horses that swim across a lake on a foggy day, and strive to achieve the perfect "tolt" or natural gait during …"

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