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.<\/p>\n One Man and a Mule: \u00a0Across England with a Pack Mule .<\/p>\n For centuries mules were used to transport goods across Britain.<\/strong> Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s Travels with a Donkey<\/em> \u2013 the\u00a0bestselling Recounting the stories of the characters he meets along the way, this This is an unashamedly personal story<\/strong>, combining Hugh\u2019s trademark Jethro the mule<\/a><\/strong> becomes very much a character in his own right Reviews<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u2018Hugely enjoyable\u2019\u00a0 The Observer<\/p>\n <\/em>\u2018Another enchanting book by Hugh Thomson, who is fast becoming one of the leading players in the British travel writing scene\u2026 I quite often found myself laughing aloud.\u2019 <\/em>\u2018It is the encounters Thomson has which show it is people, no less than places, that make England what it is.\u2019\u00a0 Brian Viner, Daily Mail<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018Terrific fun.\u2019 \u00a0Eileen Battersby, Irish Times<\/p>\n <\/em>\u2018A magnificent meander.\u00a0 The harder the road, the more engaging the writer.\u00a0 Thomson has the stamina of Wainwright, the comic touch of Jerome K. Jerome, and the mischievous curiosity of Norman Lewis.\u2019\u00a0 John Gimlette<\/p>\n <\/em>\u2018As in the author\u2019s previous book,\u00a0The Green Road Into the Trees<\/em>, which described a walk in southern England (and won the Wainwright Prize), there is evocative writing of nature and the landscape beyond the entertainment. Mules are not the only things that have disappeared from our countryside and Thomson takes on the issues: the curse of EU subsidies that leave fields bare, the hardships of sheep farming, the breakdown of rural community life and the\u00a0increasing restrictions of access to land that we could all have walked across not so long ago.\u2019 Anthony Sattin, <\/a>Observer<\/p>\n <\/em>\u2018’Evocative and wonderfully observed…\u00a0One Man and Mule<\/em>‘ is a lovely, good-natured and highly informative journey through the hinterland, emphasizing the human scale of England in all its peculiarities.\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0Paul Theroux<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Those who want to hear Hugh having a\u00a0<\/a>\u2018a South American adventure <\/p>\n <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/One-Man-and-A-Mule-tweaked-637x1024.jpg\")
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\n<\/strong>(published Preface, Penguin Random House, June 22, 2017)<\/p>\n
\nStrong, sturdy and able to carry a great deal of weight, they made
\nideal walking companions \u2013 as long as you didn\u2019t ask them to do anything
\nthey didn\u2019t want to do!<\/p>\n
\n19th<\/span>\u00a0Century travel book \u2013 Hugh<\/strong> takes his stubborn, cantankerous,
\nyet ever trusty mule Jethro<\/strong> across England from the Yorkshire Moors
\nto the Lake District, using old drovers\u2019 roads and mule tracks that have
\nfallen into disrepair. \u00a0These wild parts of the North of England used mules
\nextensively in the past and by recreating that experience, Hugh pays tribute
\nto the forgotten muleteers who once roamed these hills.<\/p>\n
\nwonderfully vivid and witty account brings to life the ancient landscape
\nof the north in a way few other contemporary travel writers attempt.<\/p>\n
\ninsight and humour with lyrical intensity. One Man and a Mule<\/em> paints
\na stunning portrait of Britain and its history.<\/p>\n
\nduring this trip, as Hugh travels from one coastline of Britain to the
\nother across some of its most spectacular landscape.\u00a0 Jethro now has
\nhis own Facebook page<\/a> and Twitter account, @JethrotheMule,
\nbut is unavailable for interview.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Country Life<\/p>\n
\nin South America\u2019 can listen to his exploits with Benedict Allen
\nin Two Men and a Mule<\/em>, as broadcast by the BBC\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nsee Goodreads reviews for One Man and a Mule<\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n