This mature woman’s journey on horseback, which includes many photographs is published on 28 October 2023.
Riding the nomads’ mountain pastures in 2013, Sue fell in love with the country and its people and describes her four rides in the Tien Shan and Talas Mountains with English and Kyrgyz friends.
During those rides they covered 500 miles; crossed 20 passes, most between 9,000 feet and 13,000 feet; negotiated gorges and boulder strewn rivers of cascading snowmelt.
In 2017 Sue returned to ride for over 150 miles down the no-go zone, once the frontier between the USSR and China, and still the Kyrgyz/Chinese border.
Everywhere they were welcomed by the shepherds and their families.
Her book is illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, graphs and a colour map and recounts how the smallest country in Central Asia is rebuilding itself after 115 years of Russian rule.
Sue Bathurst is an adventure horsewoman having ridden in Bhutan, across the Thar Desert; the Andes; in Northern Mongolia to visit the Tsaatan; Cuba; the Georgian Tusheti and the Carpathians.
Kyrgyzstan and the Jailoo is published by Troubador a self-publishing services company. Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China.
It became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
PDF sample copy : https://cdn.roxhillmedia.com/production/email/attachment/1210001_1220000/89b9daf98f92f19384c48aae208ebd5257926506.pdf .
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