The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's LifeRupert Isaacson
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Heart-breaking, uplifting and full of adventure, The Long Ride Home is the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Horse Boy. Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year almost to the day since Rowan's improvement he started regressing: the accidents and tantrums reappeared, terrifying his father Rupert. Something had to be done. Father and son embarked on a new quest, journeying from the bushmen of Namibia to the coastal rainforests of Queensland, Australia and finally to the Navajo reservations of the American southwest, where Rowan was transformed - they had begun the Long Ride Home. " It is probably only once in a critical lifetime that one will be moved almost to tears . . . a triumph of the human spirit". ( Telegraph (on The Horse Boy)). " Magical, miraculous, uplifting". ( Daily Mail (on The Horse Boy)). " Amazing, astonishing". ( Sunday Times (on The Horse Boy)). Rupert Isaacson is British but lives with his family in Texas, U S A. He is an ex-professional horse trainer and founder of The Horse Boy Foundation, which helps to make horses and nature available to other children, autistic or not, all over the world, including the U K. The Horse Boy was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.
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